Hi, great answer, but I'm having a hard time...
I need to exclude all the social security income, since I'm doing the taxes for someone who lives overseas in one of the 8 countries where the US social security is not taxed due to treaty.
When I enter the full social security income in line 6a, around $20K, then 6b has about $3K, the amount that is taxable. If I exclude the full social security income by entering the negative under other income, then I get negative AGI which is not correct, since in line 6b, only has the taxable amount and not the full social security income.
If I enter in Other Income the the negative of the taxable social security, the 6b the taxable amount changes, since the social security taxable, takes into account the other income.
What I would want to do is just enter 0 in 6b and write "non taxable due to treaty", but I don't see how I can write on the dotted line in Turbo Tax? I really want to file online rather than printing and mailing.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
