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January 28, 2020
Question

Form 2555 line 14 "Days in US on Business"

  • January 28, 2020
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Line 14 (part of phisical presence test) requires you to list time you was in US during the year. So some reason it does not allow 0 as input for number of days on business.

I did not find anything that supports this requirement. 

Case "I worked abroad, visited US on holidays so no US-based income was recieved" cannot be correctly reflected.

I can input 1 day on business 0 usd income, but that would not be 100% correct. Can you please change that form.

This applied to TurboTax Online, Turbotax Deluxe.

(It is also the same for Turbotax 2018, which will require me to basically re-do the form 2555 manually)

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    Level 13
    January 30, 2020

    If your  answer is zero days, then leave the field blank.  The program will calculate that as a zero.

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    OlegAndrAuthor
    Level 2
    January 30, 2020

    It turns out it allows you to do blank fields but does not allow you to input 0