Get your taxes done using TurboTax

Your child's income does not go on your tax return.   His income goes on his own return.   Since he has self-employment income he needs online Premium or any version of the desktop download to prepare a Schedule C for his expenses.    Or you might want to explore the options on the IRS Free File site:

You might also want to use free software from the IRS Free File versions:

https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/

 

You can still claim him as a dependent on your own return.   On his return he must say that he can be claimed as someone else's dependent.

 

 

He will pay self-employment tax for Social Security and Medicare, and possibly ordinary income tax, depending on how much he earned.

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/self-employed/help/how-do-i-report-income-from-self-employment/00/...

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/self-employed/help/what-is-the-self-employment-tax/00/25922

 

https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/import-export-data-files/enter-self-empl...

 

Your own return can be prepared using online Deluxe or any version of the desktop download.

 

Since you have TWO returns to prepare, you might want to use desktop software ---which can prepare and e-file up to five federal returns.

 

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