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Deductions & credits
@AmyC Yes, I had found that already, thanks. But, it still doesn't really answer the question originally posed.
There are two percentages listed, either on the Consolidated form from Vanguard, or the link you just posted. One is "Foreign Source Income (total)" the other is "Foreign Source Income (Qualified)". You've referenced a third, which is the "Foreign Tax Paid %", which I have no idea how to apply (to be clear, the Vanguard form **does** already tell you how much foreign tax each investment paid in $).
On the Consolidated form, it does not specify what these first two percentages are percentages **of**. Are they percentages of total (cap gains + dividends), or just percentages of dividends? As an investor, I see no reason to assume those are the same (different investments in a fund can certainly have a different mix of cap gains distributions and dividends, the ratio need not be constant).
On the link you shared, it seems to specify that the percentages are relative to Box 1a, which is only the total of dividends, not including cap gains.
But, this really doesn't seem consistent with the questions TurboTax is asking on the interview forms, or on the Form 1116 (foreign tax credit computation) worksheet. Both mention "income", suggesting perhaps a combination of dividends + capital gains. And, on the worksheet, it very clearly asks for (h) Qual. Dividends and LT Capital Gains.
I think if you take the time to try to work through the calculation with the information the original poster has supplied, you'll see that none of the replies on this page actually specify how to input the data.