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Deductions & credits

Perhaps too late to help you for 2022 tax year, but not if you filed an extension. Hopefully this might help others in the future. BTW, I am not a CPA or tax advisor. Just passing on what I have read.

 

I was in the same predicament as you have with TurboTax, but for more than $10 foreign tax paid. The tax was exactly 10% of the total dividend. 

A couple things: 1) how much time do you want to spend on reducing your taxes by $10?

2) TurboTax implies you must complete Form 1116, which is not always correct, as it appears in your case.

Check out:

Re: 1099-Div Box 8 (intuit.com) https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/re-1099-div-box-8/01/2306349/highlight/true#M8284...

and the IRS official information on foreign tax credits:

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/foreign-tax-credit-how-to-figure-the-credit

 

Bottom Line in your situation, since the foreign taxes paid are less than $300 USD is to just skip over TurboTax's advice to complete Form 1116 and guess what happens then? TurboTax still records what you entered for the Takeda 1099-DIV in Box 7 and presumably reduces taxes by the same amount. I didn't experiment with entering different amounts for Box 7, but easy enough to do to see if and how TurboTax recalculates taxes due. Should be a 1:1 match for Japan, i.e. your taxes due should be reduced by $10 in your case.