I have no foreign taxes paid in 2023 but I have foreign tax carryover so I went through the foreign tax credit data entry section. Upon completing my Fed return one error was identified in the Smart Check reivew: the first field in Part 1, Column A on the Foreign Tax Credit Comp Worksheet was flagged for being blank while the Part 1, g1a field showed $167 which by all appearances is a 2023 gross foreign income amount.
This $167 is a mystery amount since I have no 2023 foreign income. I double and triple checked all my 1099-INTs and 1099-DIVs to make sure I didn't fumble finger an entry into the relevant fields. Nope--no entry mistakes. Bizarre.
I was also surprised to see a zero foreign tax credit calculation so I plugged "Various" into the error field in question to see what I'd get after clearing this one "error" and rerunning the Smart Check. Still zero credit calculated, which is neither here not there for this post, so I deleted both the $167 amount and the "Various" in the worksheet but now both fields are flagged as errors.
Any explanation for this? Any way to get rid of the mystery $167 / Various combo so as to clean up that worksheet to show no foreign income in 2023?
