When I prepared the return as I have always done in the past with Lacerte, the return came up as him owing almost $2,000 which is incorrect and I cannot figure out why.  Also, with the foreign income exclusion, Lisa Ihm said they would not be qualified for the CTC and ACTC's so obviously that was an error in the past.   I have spent hours going over both Credit vs. Exclusion and have more gray hair now than ever before! LOL...