How can I change self-employment tax deferral amount from $125 to $0?

[LenaH]

In order to remove your tax deferral, you must delete your election to defer your self-employment taxes from your tax return.

Please follow these steps in TurboTax to change your election:

1. Open your return.
2. Click Federal on the left hand side. 
3. Click Deductions and Credits on the top of the page.
4. On the page Tax Breaks, scroll down until you see Tax relief related to Covid-19.
5. Click Revisit next to Self-employment tax deferral. 
6. Answer no to the question Do you want more time to pay self-employment taxes? 

[Anonymous]

Choosing no to the question Do you want more time to pay self-employment taxes? does not change the deferral amount to zero.  Any ideas on how to fix this? I do not want to defer the self-employment taxes

[CarissaM]

Please delete your Schedule C, and then follow the instructions by Lenah above to re-enter the selections. 

If you have any additional issues, please click here to contact customer service. 

[Anonymous]

@CarissaM, thanks for replying, but that is not a good solution.  @JamesG1 provided an excellent solution as follows :

Your self-employment income may be eligible for a portion of your self-employment tax to be deferred.  See this TurboTax Help.

In TurboTax Online Self-Employed, I was able to enter a self-employment tax deferral and pass Review.  Then I was able to remove self-employment tax deferral and pass Review.

Follow these steps.

• Down the left side of the screen, click on Federal.
• Across the top of the screen, click on Deductions  & credits.
• Under Your tax breaks, scroll down to Self-employment tax deferral.
• Click on Edit/Add to the right of Self-employment tax deferral.
• At the screen Do you want more time to pay your self-employment tax?, click Yes.
• At the screen Let's start by getting your eligible income, leave the dollar amount you previously entered.
• Click on Continue.
• At the screen Tell us how much you'd like to defer, change the dollar amount to $0.
• Click Continue.
• Click through Federal Review to make sure than the Review issue has been removed.
• At the screen Some of your self-employment taxes may be eligible, click Skip.

[nebirah]

People receiving federal refunds are not eligible for self-employment tax deferrals -- so the SE-T form needs to be manually edited on line 18. Easy peasy.

Then when the federal review is complete and the state return is checked, that enters a loop because it expects a different answer on the federal form.