Alabama Foreign Tax credit calculation: rule 810-3-21-.03

[girishapte]

Alabama State software for TT 2024 Premier Desktop is not implementing Rule 810-3-21-.03 which describes how to calculate credit available for foreign taxes paid.

https://www.revenue.alabama.gov/ultraviewer/viewer/basic_viewer/index.html?form=2021/12/810-3-21-.03... 

I have foreign rental income evenly earned for entire 2024.  I am an AL resident since 01 Sep 2024.  Per the above rule 810-3-21-.03 (which was enacted in January 2013), I am entitled to a prorated credit on my AL state return for foreign tax paid based on my residency period in AL.

TT 2024 Premier Desktop Federal correctly calculates foreign tax credit for the 1040; however the AL state software provides no support for calculating the proration nor for entering the credit.

The only support for "foreign taxes" in the AL software is for corporations and other entities but not for individuals.

Note: AL state software allowed me to manually enter the prorated amount of the foreign income based on the period I was an AL resident, but the software does not seem to have implemented AL codes related to foreign income and foreign tax credit for individuals

Thanks in advance for relevent replies related to my user errors or viable workarounds.  

[girishapte]

Was able to manually complete the return with assistance from [PII removed] aTax Expert with TT.

The fields asking for Corporation/Estate/Trust name and FEIN can be left blank for Individuals and the subsequent fields can be manually populated with manually calculated proration values.  Once populated, the values automatically transfer to the rest of the return.

The Final Review complains about the empty Corp name and FEIN fields, but was instructed to ignore the warning and proceed to file-by-mail. [State of AL does not allow e-file because the foreign income attritubed to AL was different than in the 1040 due to my moving to AL in Sep 2024 and prorating the AL portion as one-third of the annual total]

Ms. [PII removed] has submitted internal request to add clear verbiage about leaving these fields empty, and to not trigger error message based on these fields being empty.

Let's see how the 2025 AL state software functions!