Level 11
04-02-2020
02:40 PM
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Choose your own adventure. This is what we get paid the big bucks for.
Depending on materiality:
- Elect not to file the 1116, because then you don't care
- Assume all are foreign
- Look at the dividend detail and pick out all the items that have foreign taxes withheld and assume those are 100% foreign
- Look at the dividend detail and pick out all the items that have ADR in the name and assume those are 100% foreign
- Google every mutual fund to determine the percentage of foreign source income, then multiply
- Ask your client to ask their investment advisor, whose hapless assistant surely has nothing better to do and wouldn't consider just blowing you off