foreign tax credit

[user17705019283]

When I go to "foreign taxes" in the credit section and try to update the amount from 0, I get a series of questions which I answered.  I am then taken back to the original page and have not been able to enter the amount of foreign taxes paid from my NR4 form.  How can I enter this amount?

[pk]

@user17705019283 , from your post it seems to me that it is your answers to the questions ( which I find to be quite confusing at a first glance ) that is allowing TurboTax to "assume" that you have nothing to declare as FT.  To investigate this further, will you please answer the following  ( and any additional info that you think may be useful :(

(a) you a US person ( citizen/GreenCard/ Resident for Tax purposes ) --?

(b) what was the NR4  income/tax withholding  statement for  ( pension -- what type , passive income like interest/dividend/ capital gains etc. ) ?

(c) this income  was received in calendar year 2025 ?

(d) Is this your first year with this  income and/or issue ?  If you had an NR-4 last year, did you also have an issue  then or is it just showing up this year only ?

I will circle back once I hear from you --yes ?

[user17705019283]

a) yes

b) passive div income code 9

c) yes

d) not my first year and I did not have this problem last year

I paid $649.04 in Canadian taxes in 2025.

[pk]

@user17705019283  thank you for your prompt  response to my questions.  Give  me a  little time to create the situation on my copy of TurboTax ( desktop ) and see how it behaves  -- seems a simple case and so I am surprised .  I will be back

[user17705019283]

Thank you.

[pk]

@user17705019283 , I created your situation -- US person, single, W-2 income ( with federal, state and FICA withholdings ) and a foreign ( Canada ) dividend income with FTC paid.  I took care to enter the dividend  income ( i.e. no import ) and  foreign taxes paid  (from relevant boxes of NR-4  -- box 16 and 17 ) in US$.   Note that the  dividend  income entered was as if I had a 1099-DIV but did not enter any Foreign Taxes Paid in that area.  Then while working on " Credits and Deductions " Tab, "I will choose what I work on",  chose  "Foreign Taxes ".  Here I entered the  foreign income again and the  taxes  paid to Canada --- this is a bit confusing but persistence paid off.  The result was that form 1116 was correctly filled out -- make sure you choose  " Passive Income" -- Turbo default is general category.

It does work as expected.    I confirmed by going into forms mode  and checked all the forms and  entries  therein.

I did not ask/ enter any tax treaty assertions for this dividend income and the resulting FTC.

If you need more on this , please feel welcome to  either add to this  thread or PM me  ( just NO PII -- Personally Identifiable Information ).

pk