I have had a longstanding question about foreign tax carryover in TT. In some years I have not used all the foreign taxes paid for that year as a credit and other years the opposite, I got a credit greater than foreign taxes (FT) paid that year. The question relates to the running "carryover" chart. In i.e. year 2016, I paid FT of 318, had none disallowed, and got credit for only 91 that year. I would assume the amount utilized is 91 and the carryover is +227. However in 2017, I paid 521 in FT, had none disallowed and received a TT foreign tax credit of 613. Is the amount utilized that year 521 or 613. If the latter, than is the carryover -92? When I look at the TT carryover chart in the last column, is that supposed to be a series of + and - numbers depending on what happens a given year or is it a running total, taking the recent year into account. When I look at the TT carryover tally over the 10 years I have used it, it seems incorrect and does not seem to take into account the years that I got a credit that was greater than the FT paid that year. All my foreign taxes are passive, just due to dividends from stocks on US stock exchanges.
Thank you in advance for any answers to this.
