Deductions & credits
@ juinnder wrote:Unfortunately when I entered this foreign wages in the Desktop version it didn't generate form 1116 so sorry but that didn't work either! I am truly stuck on where to enter foreign wages into TT Desktop to generate form 1116 for general and then for passive income.
Foreign wages are entered in the interview topic that @ DawnC discussed above, but as you've seen, that is not the topic that generates Form 1116. You can prepare Form 1116 (Foreign Tax Credit) in the desktop version. It's under the "Deductions & Credits" tab. So it's actually a 2-part process--first, entering the foreign wages in the Foreign Earned Income section, then going to the Foreign Tax Credit topic to generate the Form 1116.
It's not the entry of foreign wages that generates Form 1116. Form 1116 is generated when you go through the interview for the Foreign Tax Credit, which is a different interview. Have you gone through the Foreign Tax Credit section? Scroll up and see the second set of steps that @ DoninGA left you in his original comment to your question. Those are the steps to get to the Foreign Tax Credit interview that generates Form 1116.
Once you get past several screens in that Foreign Tax Credit interview it will ask you to select if you want to use a deduction or credit for foreign taxes paid. If you choose "take the credit", about 4 or so screens later it starts Form 1116, and the first question will say "Choose the income type." That's where you can choose passive, general, etc. See image below; click to enlarge:
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