FEIE vs Foreign Tax Credit Calculator

What it does

A free, no-signup tool for Americans abroad: enter your income and country, and it runs both US expat tax elections — the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (Form 2555) and the Foreign Tax Credit (Form 1116) — on official 2025/2026 IRS brackets, then tells you which keeps more, including the carryover and the refundable child credit most estimates miss.

Free calculator: compare the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (Form 2555) against the Foreign Tax Credit (Form 1116) on your real numbers — 2025 and 2026 IRS brackets, the stacking rule, carryovers and the child-credit trap.

Short answer: low-tax country → the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (Form 2555) usually wins; high-tax country → the Foreign Tax Credit (Form 1116) usually wins, because it reaches $0 US tax and banks the excess foreign tax as a 10-year carryover while keeping the refundable child credit. This calculator runs both elections on your real numbers with official IRS brackets — the 2025 FEIE cap of $130,000 or the 2026 cap of $132,900 , the post-OBBBA standard deduction, and the stacking rule most quick estimates skip. Scope: federal income tax only, earned income only, standard deduction, under 65, one earner. It ignores self-employment tax, the foreign housing exclusion, state tax and NIIT —…from expatcove.com

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