topic Foreign Earned Income trips to USA error in Deductions & credits

Foreign Earned Income trips to USA error

smroth41 — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 17:48:27 GMT

When entering my Foreign earned income exclusion data, I had 2 trips back tot he US - when entering those the form requires at least one day in the US while working. My trips were personal and I need to enter 0 days working during the trip. Seems to be an error in that form in 2021 TurboTax?????

Re: Foreign Earned Income trips to USA error

pk — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 21:03:46 GMT

@smroth41 , I think this issue has been around for a long time -- just use 1 day for US business days ( for each trip ). If I remember right this is because the IRS processing does not allow zero US business days ( for some stupid and unk reason)

Re: Foreign Earned Income trips to USA error

smroth41 — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 01:24:27 GMT

I can - but this wasn't an issue in previous years - one could enter 0 days. It won't change the end result of the exclusion, just isn't correct.

Re: Foreign Earned Income trips to USA error

dordelondra — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 19:22:33 GMT

I agree, I have not seen this in previous years either.