[Alberta's Child]

Your story sounds unusual. I was in a similar situation, and the taxes I paid in the foreign country were credited against my U.S. tax liability. I still had to file a U.S. tax return, but I owed $0 because the amount of taxes I paid in the foreign country exceeded what I owed in the U.S.

[Hootowl99]

I don't have enough knowledge to know if my situation was unusual or not. But I certainly wish the bite had been less. Lol... Yes I did get credit for the foreign side of the income based taxes but still had a USA liability remaining with the net effect that my total tax load was greater than if it had been one country taxing instead of two.