I have had the same schedule c forever (I'm talking 30 years) in TT.
When I enter my 1099 NEC's, TT seems to lose track of my existing schedule c/business after one or two entries. At first I can select the business that's already in there, then after about 3 entries, it acts like nothing is in there and makes me type in a new business for every single 1099 that I enter, which means it's creating a new schedule C for each new 1099 NEC - it will even do this for a 1099 that I had the previous year and am just updating with current year info. The only way I've been able to fix this is to finish entering all 1099s, entering a business for each one, then go into forms, link each 1099 to the correct schedule C, then delete all of the extra schedule C's that shouldn't have been created in the first place.
Is this happening to anyone else? This shouldn't be happening and causes a lot of extra work for no reason.
There is no requirement to enter each 1099-NEC. You could specify you didn't get any 1099-NECs. then you would need to manually add up the amounts and enter just the total. or you enter them all but each needs to be linked to that schedule c
One solution is to add the 1099-NECs together and enter the entire total as income on the Schedule C. This would eliminate any duplication for you. Keep all of them with your tax file, but it's not necessary to enter each one since the IRS already has a copy of each of them.
Are you in the Online version or the Desktop program? Actually you can just enter it as Other self employment income or as Cash or General income. You don't need to get a 1099NEC or 1099Misc or 1099K. Even if you did you can enter all your income as Cash. Only the total goes to schedule C.
How to enter income from Self Employment
Understood and thank you all for your quick responses.
Just seems very buggy to me and that it shouldn't be happening in the first place.