Yes! This worked! The key difference was #2. THANK YOU.

I also am below the $600 cutoff for filing jointly and think that I should be able to take the tax credit without filing 1116 per the attached IRS instructions....

Nothing. It never asked that question at all until I was at the very end doing a final review and then it flagged the box on Schedule B. That was the first I ha...

This helps but I haven't solved it yet. I assume that F1116 was generated when I did the interview about Foreign Tax Credit, but I'm still getting the error. Ho...

I have the same question and am following this post. In my case, I chose in the interview to do F1116 rather than the exemption.