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What type of income qualifies as “foreign earned income”?

 

What type of income qualifies as “foreign earned income”?

The “foreign earned income exclusion” is strictly based on “foreign earned income” only (i.e. foreign wages or self-employment income). Passive income, such as interest, dividends, capital gains and retirement distributions, are not considered “earned income.”

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