Income from foreign employer

[megannielsenlee]

What form do I use to report info from my self-employed job from a foreign employer? I have been resident in Britain since 2008, all income is from Britain. I am well below the threshold of taxable income.

[SeanE1 · Accepted solution]

To enter your income from a foreign employer follow these steps:

How to enter Foreign Income

• Go to Federal Taxes

• Select Wages & Income

• Click I'll choose what I work on

• Scroll down the page to the last section Less Common Income and select Show More

• Select Start to the right of Foreign Earned Income and Exclusion

• Go through this section and enter the income that you earned abroad.

[ravee_h]

A follow up question - Reporting of foreign income on Line 7 of 1040 is required irrespective of foreign tax credit is chosen or foreign earned income inclusion. Is that correct? In other words if an expat with 100% foreign income chooses to take FTC, does he need to fill Line 7 of 1040 or just the form 1116 (where you specify the wages and taxes thereon)?

[ishtari]

Turbo tax keeps ticking the box that foreign income is on a W2 when it isn’t. It is also taking all my income to be foreign income.

[Andrea14]

Hi,

I have the same problem. I reported my payment from a foreign employer as you recommended but then I saw that Turbo tax included it in "1 Wages, salaries, tips, etc. Attach Form(s) W-2". I don't know if it is ok or an error and I worry because I don't have a Form W-2. What should I do? 

Thank you,

[BillM223]

@Andrea14

Please see my answer to your duplicate post at https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/taxes/discussion/foreign-income/01/1631136#M578314