@Critter-3 Wondering if you could help me make sense of this.
My wife lives and works abroad and I just filled the joint tax return on Turbo Tax.
After selecting married filling jointly, the tax refund was 8k+.
After I filled in my wife's foreign income info, the refund dropped to 2.6k.
After we claimed FEIE successfully for the full amount she earned abroad in 2022, the refund increased to 3.2k, but never the 8k+.
Because of the FEIE, the total taxable income before and after I put down her info are the same as this is basically my income. How come the taxes were 5k+ more even though her income has been excluded.
