Maximum Deferral of Self-Employment Tax Payments

[crazy4youth]

We received a letter from the IRS stating we owe them an additional $2000 from our 2020 Tax Return.

For clarification, my wife is self-employed. I was not, at the time. 

I looked over our 2020 Tax Return PDF and saw that under the Maximum Deferral of Self-Employment Tax Payments, there is an amount of just over $2000 on line 26 under section 3, but when I went back through my Turbotax account (I tried via amendment to see if I could find out where I chose that deferral option), I could not find where I elected to do that. And I don't remember choosing to do that because COVID did not negatively affect our income. 

Was this automatic? If so, I had no idea it did that and am quite peeved because we had the money then to pay it all. And I got no kind of data stating I needed to remember to pay it back. 

I mean, I could have just forgotten about all that, having COVID-brain and all. Who knows? 

[Critter-3 · Accepted solution]

It was not automatic ... you had to choose an amount  of  SE taxes to defer ...  here are the screens you would have seen ... payments were due 12/31/21 & 12/31/22 ...

[crazy4youth]

Okay great. I will go back in and take a look at that. 

[crazy4youth]

Weird, when I go back in to amend my 2020 return, I can't find anything related to Tax Relief Due to COVID-19.