Form 1116 needs improvement. When the data for foreign taxes is added on the 1099 Div worksheet it asks for it to be linked to one column on Form 1116 - i.e one country. But I get tax withheld from multiple countries on one 1099 Div. Plus I have multiple accounts and the same country is on more than one 1099 Div. I constructed a spreadsheet to calculate the totals by country so it could be entered correctly in the 1116 worksheet. But the review flags an issue since I leave that linkage empty. It still seems to calculate correctly, hopefully it will e-file OK.
This should be further improved for next year to understand that there can be a many to many relationship between a country and the accounts that go into a single tax filing. It's only three items per entry: country, amount of income, and tax credit. The brokerages supply this as supplemental information on the 1099 - you ought to be able to import it.
If you have a simple suggestion to clear the warning, I'd like to hear it. Thanks.
