jsamuelr
Returning Member

Deductions & credits

After digging around for endless hours, I believe I discovered the error. In the W2 guide it asks the question whether this income is "foreign earned". If it is checked turbotax mistakenly automatically adds form 2555. In the FORMS view of the Turbotax on the W2 form, PART 1 Item 1, (Obviously related to the same checkbox in the guide) it asks, "the income reported on this w2 is from a foreign source AND is eligible to be excluded on Form 2555. I unchecked this box and the error went away.  It did not affect anything else on my tax return. It seems quite simply an issue of poor wording on the account of Turbotax, especially since there are clearly a question in the foreign earned income section that specifically asks if you want to try and exclude this income (2555) and if you select NO, then this form and all of its associated links should be removed. 

Hopefully, this helps others.