Thanks @DaveF1006 , this is a really helpful response!
Does it make any sense that line 24 is currently $0? Turbotax does not include my foreign income (as entered in form 1116 for FTC) as part of my AGI. Additionally, TT is calculating my refund as the exact amount of taxes I paid on my US income. Seems like I have done something completely wrong here...
It looks like what is happening is that I’m being refunded all the taxes I paid and turbotax is then calculating my tax responsibility based on my taxable US income, which after the standard deduction, is around 18K. Perhaps this is why my FTC is so low. Shouldn’t turbotax be somehow combining my foreign and US income and then calculating what my tax responsibility would be in the US based on a total income then comparing it to what I paid in taxes (both to the US and to the foreign country which has a double taxation agreement with the US)?
I worked 3 months in the US (with tax deducted from my paycheck as usual) then took a job abroad and worked the remainder of 2023 in that country so I don't qualify for either physical presence (I took too many trips) or bonafide residence.
