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FTC Carryover Rules for couples electing 6013(g) to treat nonresident alien spouse as tax resident

Forum|Forum|11 months ago
April 7, 2025
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Hi. My wife is living and working abroad now. She had to surrender her green card in 2023. We will elect to have her treated as a tax resident for 2023 and beyond. While we lived in the UK, we generated a lot of FTC carryover. However, virtually all of that was generated by UK taxation of my income. Now, I am living in the USA again. For 2023 and beyond, can we use the FTC carryovers to offset US tax obligations from her foreign income?

Thank you

As long as you have foreign income to use the foreign tax credit against then yes, you can use the carryforward.

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