Get your taxes done using TurboTax

TurboTax allows you to remove self-employment tax from your tax return.

Step 1: Remove Schedule SE

• On the PERSONNAL tab, choose Other Tax Situations
• Scroll down to Business taxes
• Select Self-Employment tax
• Choose Make Adjustments
• Enter your net self-employment income as a negative amount

This removes self-employment tax and the deductible part of self-employment tax from Form 1040. However you still need to adjust Form 2555 to remove the S/E tax adjustment.

Step 2: Remove S/E adjustment from Form 2555

• Click on the PERSONAL tab
• Select Personal Income
• Scroll down to Less Common Income
• Update Foreign Earned Income Exclusion
• Keep going until you see Deductions Related to Your Foreign Earned Income
• Remove your Self-Employment tax adjustment

Attach a copy of the statement to Form 1040 or Form 1040-SR from the appropriate agency
of the foreign country verifying that your self-employment income is subject to social security coverage in that country. Enter “Exempt, see attached statement” on Schedule 2 (Form 1040), line 4.