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Foreign earned income exclusion

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February 15, 2023
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I have a foreign earned income of $30,000 from salary in Foreign country. I meet the Physical presence test and Turbo tax says I qualify for the Foreign Income earned exclusion. However after putting the foreign earned income amount my tax liability has increased by $3000.. I do not know the reason as ideally the entire amount should have been excluded and my tax liability should have remained intact as my income is less than $100,000?

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ThomasM125

If the foreign earned income is self-employment income, it is subject to self-employment tax, which would not be excluded as foreign earned income. In other words, the income may have been excluded for income tax purposes, but not for self-employment tax purposes.

You can look on Form 1040, schedule 2, line 4 to see if you are paying self-employment tax. You can view your form 1040 and schedules 1 to 3 while working in the online version of TurboTax by following these steps: