My husband works regularly for a company who treats him like he is self-employed, therefore sent him a 1099-NEC. He does not have a business. How can this be considered SE income if there is no sole-proprietorship (or other) business to list? He had the same situation in 2020 and his income from this place (1099-nec) was about $2000 less than it was in 2021 but dropped our expected return from $1,900 to $303. That did not happen last year. Has something changed in the law? From the way it is now, we are better off if he were not working at all, which makes no sense. Are we risking some problem for not having an actual business license of some sort? We are in Ohio
