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More information is needed. Are you trying to process foreign tax paid from a 1099 or a k-1 or foreign earned income, foreign royalties or rental income or some other source?
As rogge1722 pointed out, more information will help. The income must be present before the credit can be applied. Let us know which type of income you have, and we will be happy to help walk you through getting the credit to work as well!
I am having same problem with the Foreign Tax Credit. I went through and selected all the countries that my investment account listed on the 1099 Div. The software only lets you report income for 2 entries and then states you are done. If you choose to review the information, you are sent back to the BEGINNING and you re-enter all the countries again. Once again - I could only enter for 2 countries reported income and told I am done.
How do you enter more than 2 countries worth of foreign tax paid? I listed ALL countries in the first screen from the pull down list of countries. Very time consuming and frustrating.
If all of your foreign taxes are on 1099-DIV, you can select RIC for the country name. That indicates the dividends came through a Regulated Investment Company. In that case you don't have to list them all separately.
Rogge1722 previously responded to a similar question:
A significant shortcoming of TT is that if you have to fill out Form 1116, it can support only one country per Payer. In the past, if there were more countries than Payers, using “Various” was the technique used to restore the 1 to 1 country/payer ratio. The following technique restores this 1 to 1 ratio by creating additional payers to equal the number of countries.
This addresses the issue of a 1099-DIV with Box 7 showing foreign tax paid to multiple foreign countries and it is necessary to identify and list the countries individually on Form 1116. This is done by utilizing Dummy 1099-DIV's as illustrated by the following example.
We have a 1099-DIV with Box 7 displaying the total tax paid to 3 foreign countries we will call “A”, “B”, and “C”.
From the broker’s supplemental information, extract the foreign-source income amount in box 1a from “B” and “C” and combine them. .
Navigate to the “Here’s the dividend info we have so far” screen displaying the name of the Payer. This will be our Main Screen. Bring the Payer up in EDIT mode. Subtract the sum of B and C from the amount in box 1a and insert the remainder into box 1a. In box 7, replace the amount with the foreign tax paid to country “A”. Click to return to the Main Screen.
Click on the New Payer button. We will name this Payer “Dummy1”. In Box 1a, insert the foreign income from country “B”.. In Box 7, enter the tax paid to “B”. Leave the remaining boxes blank. Click “Continue” back to the Main Screen.
Again open up a New Payer. We will name this “Dummy2”. In box 1a, Insert the foreign income from “C”. In Box 7 the tax paid to “C”. Leave the remaining boxes blank. Click “Continue” back to the Main Screen.
Now when we go to the Foreign Tax Credit Interview Section, we are positioned to enter all the necessary data for each country individually.
Now we consider countries “D”, “E”, “F” etc.
When multiple copies of form 1116 are needed, they have to be created in the right order.
Using TT’s special instructions as a guideline, the following strategy is suggested. Assign to “A” the largest tax paid, then to “B” the 2nd largest and so on through to “F”. Then when we enter the Foreign Tax Credit Interview Section, we run them through in the same order; greatest to the least.
You may find on part 2 of Form 1116, it is necessary to type in the date for the fictitious Payers which will be the same as the actual Payer, usually 12/31/2019..
You may find it convenient to assign each fictitious payer the same name as the country it represents. This will facilitate matching countries and payers in the FTC section.
I have 3 broker statement with foreign tax withheld on each. It only brings 1 to form 1116
To clarify, what 1099 forms are these reported on and were these imported or recorded manually?
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