Since you did not receive any Form 1099-NEC from any payers, do not go through the section to enter any Form 1099-NEC.
The advice you were given to enter your own Social Security number on the Form 1099-NEC was wrong. If you had received a Form 1099-NEC, then everything you need would have been on the form.
Instead, when you are going through the self-employed/business section of your return to enter your income and expenses for being a self-employed artist, enter all of your income as 'cash'. You will have your own records showing what your clients paid you and you will simply enter the total amount you were paid for the business income.
Use the following steps to go back to the section where you were trying to enter the Form 1099-NEC and delete those entries so they will not cause any further issues:
- On the top row of the TurboTax online screen, click on Search (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax locate the search box in the upper right corner)
- This opens a box where you can type in “1099-NEC” and click the magnifying glass (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax, click Find)
- The search results will give you an option to “Jump to 1099-NEC”
- Click on the blue “Jump to 1099-NEC” link
This will bring you to the summary of all Form 1099-NEC that you have entered. Click Delete or the trash can icon next to each one.
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