I'm employed with a regular full-time employer, but did a few months of consulting on my own, part-time, this year. In TurboTax Home&Business, I added my income where it asked me - in the 1099-NEC section, while I was doing the personal income section. The result was that I didn't get a Schedule 2, Schedule C, or Schedule SE - and it didn't account for my self-employment taxes that I needed to pay. It included it as regular income and looks like it only accounted for regular income tax.

After I realized this, I re-did the 1099-NEC in the business section - there was a place for 1099-NEC income there, so I added that and removed what I did earlier from the personal section. Now the return shows the self-employment taxes and all the expected schedules (and a small tax liability instead of a healthy refund).

This is the first time I've done any self-employment, so I just want to make sure I did the right thing. Is there a scenario where 1099-NEC wouldn't be subject to self-employment tax? The consulting was just myself, not through a corp or LLC or anything.

I appreciate any insight - want to make sure I don't severely underpay or overpay.

Thanks