Thank you for the info that you provided. When I entered his personal information in the interview questions, the response I got was that he made over $4000 eliminated him as my dependent. I will check into that further.
Upon working his return in the program, entering the $4300 that was reported on the 1099–NEC assumed that it was for self-employment, which it was not. He was being paid for his time in training, and then for providing the tree service as part of the program to get former convicts into the working force. When it transferred the information to schedule C, the program indicated that he would owe some $300 in federal taxes. By deleting the schedule, C, the program entered the standard deduction of $12k+ which resulted in zero dollar owed or refund.
I will go back through my return and see if I can find those questions that might qualify him as a non-dependent family member who I supported for the entire year.
