<prompt> Human: Was working in Korea, I was told I didnt have to pay US taxes for my time thereForeign Income Exclusion. Made sense since I was being gouged by like 40 korean tax rate and high cost of living. Came to the US in last July, worked out my exceptions to get it down to 0. Filing my first W2 while I was working in KoreaUS company there, the fed would owe me 800 something USD. Filing my US W2 by itself, I owe like 30 dollars. File them together? I owe 3000USD. Turns out while you dont pay taxes on foreign earned income, it is calculated into your effective tax rate for my US earned money. Is there anything I can do? Im having issue just paying my rent as it is moved to Hawaii.  <response>: You may be entering things incorrectly. When I tried to do my own taxes while working abroad it turbo tax said I owed money, but when I paid an accountant to do it I ended up with a refund. 