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Hello, I'm turning to this forum in hopes that someone can help me: I am a Dutch citizen and I was in the US for 18 years on an F1 visa, getting various degrees. I became a tax resident in 2012 and I left the country on July 20, 2025 after I completed a postdoc on OPT. I returned to the Netherlands, where I had no income at all for the remainder of 2025. I completed paperwork with the IRS before departure to show I did not have any tax liability before leaving. In November 2025 I returned for a 2.5 week visit, and in December 2025 I was back for a 6-day conference.   My question is whether I can legally be a tax resident the whole year instead of a dual status individual. Based on my presence in previous years, I calculated that I meet the SPT for 2025. Pub 519 seems to suggest that there is a choice (i.e not declare that I want residency to end earlier). It is obviously fiscally advantageous to remain a tax resident since I could use the standard deduction and I wouldn't have any income in the Netherlands to include. However, I don't want to do the wrong thing here. TIA

For years, the form 1116 worksheet has been remarkably bad, and this year's no exception. Once again , the "Income from Foreign Countries" input area allows for selecting several countries (I need six). Then it says "Select a country from the list... on which to report each Form 1099-DIV." That would SEEM to imply info for each country should be entered separately – but Turbotax won't let you do it. Instead, if you select the first country and then click on Report Income and enter the figures for that country alone, the next screen you get says "You've completed reporting all copies of Form 1099-DIV to a country. Do you want to review your entries?" Click Yes and you're back where you started, click No and the only info accepted is what you've already put in for the FIRST country. Finally after reading old threads here I opted to simply use "Various" to cover all six countries and I itemized them and the relevant amounts in supporting details. That ALMOST worked, but I get error messages on the 1116 Comp Worksheet under Part 1, line 4b(1)b and c, which ask for "Adjusted basis of investment assets generating foreign income" and "Adjusted basis of total investment assets." Huh? As of 12/31/25, I assume? And only for the account in which I actually hold foreign securities? Does anyone know the answer to these questions? And Intuit, if you're listening (which I doubt), for the umpth time PLEASE make it possible to actually enter info for multiple countries!