rjs
Level 15
Level 15

Get your taxes done using TurboTax

All payments from an employer to an employee are supposed to be treated as wages and included in the employee's W-2. Why did you get a 1099-MISC from the same company where you are a W-2 employee? Employers sometimes erroneously issue a 1099-MISC for special payments such as a bonus, commission, award, or reimbursement, instead of including it in the W-2. If that's what happened, there is a way to report the extra payment correctly on your tax return, in spite of the employer's error.

The only exceptions are if you were an employee and a contractor at different times during the year, or if the 1099-MISC is for a spiff (manufacturer's incentive payment). If it's a spiff, it does not go on Schedule C. There is a special way to report spiffs.

If you were an employee and a contractor at different times, you enter the W-2 and the 1099-MISC as if they are unrelated. You enter the W-2 in the W-2 section, as you would for any other job, and you enter the 1099-MISC as business income, which will go on Schedule C.

If it's any other situation, post back with the details of what the 1099-MISC payment is for and which box of the 1099-MISC the income is in, and I will give you detailed step-by-step instructions for how to enter it correctly in TurboTax.