Deductions & credits
@ zuxyzuxy wrote:No my wife doesn't have a W-2. All her income in 2020 was foreign sourced and was entered directly in the "Foreign Earned Income and Exclusion" part as "a statement from my foreign employer (could be cash)"
OK, then try this. By the way, I'm a fellow user, not a tax expert. So I can't comment on any tax aspects of it.
Since you originally still had a Form 2555 in your forms list when you asked this forum question, I don't think you completely finished that FEI interview, because right at the end there is a screen that specifically asks if you want to try to exclude the income. When you say "No, I know I don't qualify to exclude my foreign income" (if that is your situation), it then asks if you want to delete Form 2555 and provides confirmation screens as it deletes the Form 2555. Then it may also ask to delete Form 2555, page 3. So if you still had a Form 2555, I don't think you got that far.
When you finish confirming that you want to delete the Form 2555 and Form 2555, page 3, then that interview is finished, and you should be back at the Your Income summary screen.
So if you walk through that FEI interview again all the way to the end, it may reset something. As you do it, it may regenerate a Form 2555 in the background, but as I said, the last screens when you say "No, I know I don't qualify to exclude my foreign income" (if that's your situation,) then it will say it's deleting the Form 2555. See these 2 images which are at the end of that interview.
Did you see and answer these 2 screens previously?
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And the next screen is this one (although yours will say 2555-S instead of T.)
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Then it may ask you if you want to delete the Form 2555, page 3.
Then you'll be back at Your Income summary screen.
I'm hoping that it will now let you efile.
