Non-resident spouse's income

[Bakavoice]

Hi everyone,

I am a Canadian PR since September, 2019. My wife is not living with me in Canada. She is living in our home country.

She had income in her country after I became in PR. When I am filing tax return, I encounter this question:
"Spouse's net income while you were living in Canada". I put $8,000 because that's her foreign income for that period of time.

I am claiming any credits or deductions for my spouse and the process is supposed to be simple. However, before I file my tax return, TurboTax gives me an Error statement, saying that my wife's total yearly income can't be 0 because she made $8,000. I corrected this mistake and put $8,000 as her total income, because her total income also equals to $8,000.

Then I filed the returns and I noticed that when corrected that mistake, it automatically change the answer to this question: "Net income from spouse's 2019 federal tax return (Line 23600)" from 0 to 8,000.
The problem here is that my wife has never filed her 2019 federal tax return because she has never been or lived in Canada. 
But when I tried to correct the number and put it back $0, I got an error, saying that this number can't be $0 because my wife made $8,000.

It's so confusing. The tax return has been filed already and I am not sure what to do.
I don't get any credits for my spouse, so this number didn't give me any refunds that I am not entitled to but it's still the wrong information

[Surajth · Accepted solution]

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