TurboTax took it upon itself to defer Social Security taxes from my husband's self-employment income. I did not request this when entering our tax info. Now we have a scary letter from the IRS about what we owe by the end of the year and had to read through our entire tax return to realize that it was the Self Employment income, not my W-2 income from an employer, and that we really do need to pay this by the end of December. It isn't much money, but I use Turbo Tax to avoid this kind of thing and the confusing IRS letters. Why did Turbo Tax DO this to us? And why are there no instructions on how to deal with it? This is probably happening to thousands of self-employed Turbo Tax users right now.
Readers, if you have only W-2 income, you can accept the earlier answer. If you have self-employment income, you are the employer and need to deal with this yourself.
