I had the same problem last year and after using TT for more than 20yrs I was about to leave. TT called and one of their "volunteer" assistants somewhere in the USA was able to walk with me through the TT catacombs and find the issue I was having.
I did the FEI just fine.
I also paid foreign taxes so needed the 1116 and the 2225.
In TT the problem for me was that I was trying to input the taxes I had paid and the TT field at that point is titled "taxes paid on other income." I had gone "continue" beyond that multiple times because I considered it as I was working on the income that I had paid taxes on and I did not have other additional income. The TT field is misleading and should have been reformatted to say "foreign taxes paid" worked just fine at that point. TT accepted the taxes I had paid, form 1116 did the magic calculations to make sure I was not getting credit for taxes against the FEI amount...all good. But what a pain!
Now I know and this year (2021 tax year) has been super simple irght up to the point that TT says, "the IRS is still working on the 2021 version of f1116. Try agian later..." but the IRS website has a fully functional f1116 for 2021! TT get 2021 updated please!
