Assuming you qualify for the exclusion through the “Physical Presence Test,” you’d need to be out of the U.S. for 330 days in a 365-day period. You mentioned six months — but did you mean six months during 2022, plus some time earlier?
There is a proration which takes place on Form 2555 (seen here, starting on line 31), wherein the exclusion is adjusted to the number of days in your qualifying 12-month period which actually fall within the tax year (making it better if you were there all year, of course). The TurboTax program handles this automatically, based on your entries regarding your stay there.
However, @sunnydoh-gmail-c, I’m thinking that you’re talking about something else, and would like to help clarify. Can you describe your stay abroad (if it was more than that six months), and tell us specifically what you read about the tax treatment which applies?
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