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I am guessing that the option for the self-employment tax deferral was generated at a point when your tax return reflected:

• A balance due, and
• Self-employment tax due.

Subsequent entries changed:

• Your balance due status,
• Your self-employment tax due, or
• Both.

For this reason, it was suggested that you temporarily return your tax return to the status of:

• A balance due, and
• Self-employment tax due.

So that you could access the self-employment tax deferral questions and remove that benefit from your tax return because subsequent entries made that benefit no longer available.

Steps that I have found helpful are listed below.  

• Down the left side of the screen, click on Federal.
• Across the top of the screen, click on Deductions  & credits.
• Under Your tax breaks, scroll down to Self-employment tax deferral.
• Click on Edit/Add to the right of Self-employment tax deferral.
• At the screen Do you want more time to pay your self-employment tax?, click Yes.
• At the screen Let's start by getting your eligible income, I have left the dollar amount that was previously entered, others change this amount to $0.
• Click on Continue.
• At the screen Tell us how much you'd like to defer, change the dollar amount to $0.
• Click Continue.
• Click through Federal Review to make sure than the Review issue has been removed.
• At the screen Some of your self-employment taxes may be eligible, click Skip.

After completing these steps, you would reverse the entries that eliminated:

• Your balance due status,
• Your self-employment tax due, or
• Both.

Best wishes.