Why sign in to the Community?

  • Submit a question
  • Check your notifications
Sign in to the Community or Sign in to TurboTax and start working on your taxes
New Member
posted Mar 5, 2021 12:53:51 PM

My sister and I stared a business together last year can we both file our taxes as self-employed for that business? Or do we need to do a 1065 form?

0 2 1074
2 Replies
Expert Alumni
Mar 5, 2021 1:09:42 PM

In fact, by starting the business together, you and your sister have formed an informal partnership.

 

It would be much easier for the partnership to report its income and expenses as a partnership on form 1065 then allocate to each of you your share of the profit/loss through the Schedules K-1, rather than each of you reporting half of income and of every expense on a Schedule C.

Level 15
Mar 5, 2021 1:39:41 PM

If fact, you MUST file as a 1065 partnership, because the only time you can file a partnership as 2-schedule C businesses is if the only two partners are spouses, in that case it is a "qualified joint venture".  You can't have a qualified joint venture with your sibling.