You may need to add temporary income to your self-employment activity to generate a balance due and allow you to access the self-employment tax deferral questions.
In TurboTax Online Self-Employed, follow these steps.
- 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, delete the dollar amount or change this amount to $0.
- Click on Continue.
- At the screen Tell us how much you'd like to defer, delete the dollar amount or change this 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.
The self-employment tax deferral is an optional benefit.
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