Although you enter the foreign income under "Other Income", you can still take the foreign tax credit if you answer the interview questions correctly.
Here are the steps:
- Sign in to your account, select Pick up where you left off
- At the right upper corner, in the search box, type in "foreign tax credit" and Enter
- Select Jump to foreign tax credit
- Follow prompts
- On screen, "Tell Us About Your Foreign Taxes", uncheck the first box ( You have no more foreign taxes to enter other than the 1099-DIV, 1099-INT, 1099-OID or a Schedule K-1) and others that apply
- Follow prompts
- Choose the Income Type, select "Passive Income"
- On screen, "Country Summary", add a country to continue
- On screen, "Foreign Taxes Paid", under foreign taxes on Other Income, enter the amount
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