Please HELP

[luke]

I have a tax client who wants to report wages earned in Afghanistan (worked for a Texas company now in Dubai) - he received NO W2 or 1099 from a company called DYNCORP. Should I make a "substitute" W2 for client - or ignore the "earnings" - or since that income will probably be wiped out by foreign earned income exclusion anyway go ahead and put the amounts reported by the taxpayer?
I am at a loss?

[JohnH]

I'd work up a rough estimate and file an extension, which would allow time to sort out the "what if's" and providing breathing room do it right without deadline pressure.

[David1980]

Foreign employers aren't required to issue a W-2. There should be a way to enter the wages to line 7 of the 1040 in your software. If you are efiling, it needs to do a "FEC record" (in fact the input screen might be called "FEC record").

[Nashville]

Dyncorp

I would be willing to bet that there is some information from his employer.

Dyncorp is a domestic company with a worldwide contracting empire. At one time they were a subsidiary of CSC Computer Sciences Corp, and maybe they still are. I used to work for an affiliated company with Dyncorp, and trust me, they issued thousands of W-2s to people working all over the world.