@ThomasM I'm not sure how what you posted clarifies the situation I described: foreign tax carryover never translates to a credit in a year where there happens to be no foreign source income. It's just something I discovered that I thought was interesting (and disappointing).
It should seem odd that how a prior year's foreign tax carried over translates to a credit (or not) in the current year is a function of whether you happen to have current year foreign income. The double taxation (or lack thereof) as relates to carried over tax has nothing to do with the foreign income (or lack thereof) in the current year.
But I'm just repeating myself, my federal taxes are done, so I'll leave it at that.
