Income earned overseas

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I worked overseas for two different clients, two different jobs lasting about three weeks each. For one client, it was about 45% of the total W-2 wages paid to me. For the other, about 19% of total W-2 wages. Technically the clients are "employers," even though it's a freelance arrangement. Just the government changing me from self-employed to having two jobs without benefits. Turbo Tax Home & Business tells me I may be entitled to an exclusion. Never have claimed this before. Both employers provided hotel at no cost to me, and catered many of the meals. Turbo Tax mangled my income - and doesn't allow me to correct. Am I entitled to an exclusion of income? Note - both "employers" are USA based, and withheld taxes on the income earned overseas.

[ThomasM125 · Accepted solution]

You may be referring to a foreign earned income exclusion, but that would not apply based on the little bit of time you were overseas. You would have to have lived in the foreign country as a resident for a year or have been there for a period of 330 days.