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Why is Lacerte treating all dividend income as foreign source?

msindc1
Level 4

Friends:

Taxpayer has $10,000 in ordinary dividends, $4,000 in qualified dividends, and $2,000 in capital gain distributions.  She has foreign tax paid of $100.  Her 1116 is treating ALL of that income as foreign-source.  I can't figure out why.  Can anyone help?

Micah

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sjrcpa
Level 15

In the dividend entry, you need to tell it how much divs, qual divs  and cap gians (0 or -1) are foreign. When you don't enter these fields it assumes all of the divs are foreign.

The more I know, the more I don't know.

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PhoebeRoberts
Level 11
Level 11

At the bottom of the dividend input screen where you put the foreign taxes paid, you need to also enter the foreign source dividends, qualified dividends, and capital gains. If you have multiple dividend entries, verify that any of them linked to the 1116 have the foreign source amounts entered.

sjrcpa
Level 15

In the dividend entry, you need to tell it how much divs, qual divs  and cap gians (0 or -1) are foreign. When you don't enter these fields it assumes all of the divs are foreign.

The more I know, the more I don't know.