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Physical Presence Test for Foreign Earned Income

  • September 26, 2019
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I am having problems inputting the qualifying 12 month period. My start date is 07/29/2018, so I put 07/30/2019 as my end date. However, when I click 'continue', TurboTax keeps telling me to put in a valid end date because it's not 12 months after the start date. The days add up to 365 days, so it should be correct. I tried inputting '07/29/2019', '07/31/2019', and other dates just to see if they'd work, but keep getting the same error and cannot proceed. What am I doing wrong?

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    the 365 days actually ends 1 day before the start date

    7/29/2018-7/28/2019 is 365 days

    july 2018  3 days

    august 1 2018 to june 30 2019 334  days

    7/1 to 7/28/19  28 days

    +3+334+28=365

     

     

    so try 7/28/2019

     

     

     

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    September 26, 2019

    the 365 days actually ends 1 day before the start date

    7/29/2018-7/28/2019 is 365 days

    july 2018  3 days

    august 1 2018 to june 30 2019 334  days

    7/1 to 7/28/19  28 days

    +3+334+28=365

     

     

    so try 7/28/2019

     

     

     

    xyoojpcAuthor
    September 26, 2019

    Thank you so much! It worked, so now I can proceed.