 foreign earned income exclusion and housing inclusion uh from form 2555 enter the amount of your foreign earned income and housing inclusion from form 2555 2555 line 45 now obviously when you get into to foreign people that have foreign income it gets a little bit confusing because depending on where the foreign income is coming from there's going to be agreements of course between the iris and and possibly other countries so that you don't end up with like an unfair kind of double taxing uh type of situation and that is also kind of a specialty area if you are doing uh taxes then do you want to be working on taxes that are going to be more complex in the area possibly of people that have uh income from multiple places multiple states makes it a little bit more complicated as well as multiple countries make things more complicated or do you want to specialize if you're doing taxes on more more uh places for a single location possibly specialized in a certain state or and or a certain country which would make things a little bit easier possibly you know you could find tax authority that might be a little bit cheaper if it doesn't have to deal with like rules for multiple states and multiple uh countries and whatnot and so that's just something to keep in mind or you might specialize like by industry and that kind of stuff so which again the industry codes or the tendencies of businesses within different states even might be different given the rules for different states as well so in any case uh enter the amount of the pre-printed parentheses as a negative number the amount from form 2555 line 45 will be subtracted from the other amounts of income listed on lines 8 a through 8c and lines 8e through 8z complete the foreign-earned income tax worksheet if you enter an amount on form 2555 line 45 foreign-earned income exclusion and housing exclusion uh from form 2555 so you might look at that form and the instructions for that if you want to dive down into more detail with it