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Deductions & credits

If you are filing with TurboTax online, let's do these steps: 

  • Check your internet connection.  Try to log out and sign back in the program. 
  • Clear your cache and sign back into the program.  To clear cache, click here: Cache
  • You may also try a different browser.  
  • Then follow steps below: 

In TurboTax online,

  • Sign in to your TurboTax account and select Pick up where you left off
  • At the right upper corner, in the search box, type in "foreign assets" and Enter
  • Select Jump to foreign assets
  • On screen, " Foreign Financial Assets", select Yes, I have foreign financial assets and No to living in foreign country
  • Next screen, "About the Amount of Your Foreign Financial Assets", select Yes to total value is more than $50,000 or 75,000
  • Follow prompt
  • Next screen, "Amounts Related to Foreign Financial Assets", enter your amounts
  • Follow prompts
  • Next screen, " Do You Have a Foreign Financial Account to Report?", select Yes
  • Follow prompts 

The program should generate the form.  Please check again.

  

To check if you are required to file a Form 8938, check criteria below:

  • Unmarried individual (or married filing separately): Total value of assets was more than $50,000 on the last day of the tax year, or more than $75,000 at any time during the year.
  • Married individual filing jointly: Total value of assets was more than $100,000 on the last day of the tax year, or more than $150,000 at any time during the year.

For more information, click here: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/comparison-of-form-8938-and-fbar-requirements

 

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