If the foreign earned income is self-employment income, it is subject to self-employment tax, which would not be excluded as foreign earned income. In other words, the income may have been excluded for income tax purposes, but not for self-employment tax purposes.
You can look on Form 1040, schedule 2, line 4 to see if you are paying self-employment tax. You can view your form 1040 and schedules 1 to 3 while working in the online version of TurboTax by following these steps:
- Click on Tax Tools in the left menu bar
- Click on Tools
- Look under Other Helpful links….
- Choose View Tax Summary
- Look in the left menu bar and choose Preview my 1040
- Scroll down the page to see form 1040 and schedules 1 to 3
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