Some customers have accepted the self-employment deferral when their tax return was in a balance owed position. Subsequent entries changed the tax return to a refund position.
In that case, you may need to add temporary income to the tax return to return to the balance owed position and to be able to access the self-employment tax deferral questions.
For instance, you may add more income using the Add income for this work button at the self-employment activity.
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.
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