He will be able to report his earned income (in USD) under the foreign earned income section and if eligible, he may be able to claim a Foreign
Earned Income Exclusion
To
enter foreign earned income information in TurboTax, log into your tax return
(for TurboTax Online sign-in, click Here
and click on "Take me to my return") type "foreign earned income" in the search bar
then select "jump to foreign earned income".
TurboTax will guide you in entering this information
The Internal Revenue Service has no official
exchange rate. The IRS will normally accept any posted exchange rate
that is used consistently. You can translate the foreign currency to U.S.
dollars using the yearly average currency exchange rate for the tax year.
In general, use the exchange rate prevailing (i.e., the spot rate) when you
receive, pay or accrue the item. Please refer to the following IRS links for
more information about Foreign
Currency and Currency Exchange Rates and Yearly
Average Currency Exchange Rates.
Additionally if he is not eligible for the Foreign
Earned Income Exclusion and he paid any Chinese income taxes in 2017 on this income, he will be able to claim a Foreign
Tax Credit
To enter a foreign
tax credits in TurboTax, log into your tax return (for TurboTax Online sign-in,
click Here and click on "Take
me to my return") type "foreign tax
credit" in the search bar then select "jump to foreign tax credit". TurboTax will guide you in
entering this information
