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Form 1116 can’t use credit from foreign rental property taxes paid to foreign country

I have a net foreign profit on my foreign rental property of 6000 dollars  that I payed taxes on in foreign country, but due to the calculations on form 1116 ( it does the calculations with Gross income, and allocates percentage / 50% of my standard deduction to this profit which completely eliminates the possibility of being used this year) my foreign tax credit can’t be used this year but is being forwarded to next year. Does anyone experienced that kind of situation, or is this some calculation error of Turbo tax software.

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Form 1116 can’t use credit from foreign rental property taxes paid to foreign country

based on what you provided, Turbotax correctly calculate the FTC allowed

 

this is how gross income is calculated

This is total income before deductions and is the sum of:

Form 1040, lines 1, 2b, 3b, 4b, 5b and 6b plus
Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 1 plus
Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 2a plus
Schedule C, line 7 (all copies) plus
All gains reported on Schedule D minus Schedule D, line 11, Subtotal Line A(Form 4797, Gain from Part I) plus
All gains reported on Form 4797 plus
Schedule E, line 3 total plus line 4 total plus
Schedule K-1 Worksheet - Estates and Trusts, Box 14 Code B : Foreign Tax Information section, line 7 (if it has a value); otherwise income reported in Part III lines 5, 6, 7 and 8 plus
Schedule K-3 - Partnerships Line B - Gross income from all sources
Schedule K-1 - Partnership Additional Information page 1, Box 11 section,Code A, line 1 (if positive) and line 3 and line 4 and Code I, line 5
Schedule K-3 - S Corporations Line B - Gross income from all sources
Schedule K-1 - S Corporation Additional Information page 1, Box 10 section, Code A, line 1 (if positive) and line 3 and line 4 and Code H, line 5
Schedule F, line 11 (all copies) plus
Form 4835, line 7 ( all copies) plus
Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 7 plus
All positive income amounts on the Other Income Statement.

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1) then a ratio is computed of foreign source income (line 1a)  to gross income (line 2e) = line 2f

2) 2f is then multiplied by the amount on 3c = line 6

3) line 1a is reduced by line 6 to come up with net foreign income line 7

4) line 7 is divided by taxable income (line 18) to come up with a ratio line 19

5) your ftc is then line 19 multiplied by your tax (line 16) or if smaller the amount of your FTc.  

 

 

 

 

 

Form 1116 can’t use credit from foreign rental property taxes paid to foreign country

It just seems unfair, since I did payed foreign taxes on that 6000 usd profit in foreign country, but can’t offset it with my foreign tax credit that I got, but just keep postponing the foreign credit for next year. If I won’t make bigger profit, I will newer be able to use these credits.

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