In the past years, Turbo Tax helped me moved the Foreign Earned Income (qualified for exclusion for Federal) to 540NR. But this year, it even told me that I don't need to report CA state tax return. When I insist on adding CA State tax return, it placed the Foreign Earned Income (FEI) into "combat zone foreign earned income exclusion" which is not true. Hong Kong, China was not a combat zone in 2023. So I followed an advice from this community and click on "forms" on the upper right corner to look at the schedule CA. It listed the FEI in column A but I can't edit it to become 0 so that I can move the amount to column C.
What can I do? What should I do? Thanks in advance.
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I'm actually confused why it says "combat zone foreign earned income exclusion" is $186,573. Where did they get that number?
Never mind. I figure out my mistake now. The FEI does not need to be taxed in CA so it should be in column A. The $183k shown on the "Combat Zone FEI exclusion" is hinting to me that I made a mistake on Form 2555 because I accidentally reported the FEI 3 times. I don't know why Form 2555 line 23 had "NIL" therefore forcing me to put a number there. Once I deleted "NIL", it lets me move on. So now I'm reviewing both 1040 and 540NR again for any mistake before filing. Thank you for reading.
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