@pk
I think my case is a little complicated , but I am sure that my taxes have been filed correctly.
I paid my US tax consultant here in Germany a lot of money to do my returns and it got to be just too expensive. For the last years, I have been doing everything exactly as this tax guy set up. And I use Turbotax now. Nothing has changed with my earnings since I started doing my own returns.
I file MFS, so I loose out on a lot of deductions (even worse than single). Every year I fill out a Schedule E and put the rents received on line3 and the expenses summed up in line 16. Then I enter the rental income as part of passive income on 1116- line 1a and the rental expenses on line 2.
The purpose of 1116 is just to figure out the creditable taxes. The rental income is reported on 1040 from ScheduleE.
I now wanted to know how to carryback passive taxes from 2019 to 2018. I believe that due to paying $0 German taxes in 2018 and having a negative value on line 17 of 1116 that I couldn't use the carryfoward credit in 2018, that was my original post. It also seems I also can't use a carryback from 2019 for the same reason.
Does this make sense? Thanks for your help.!
