Hi Treacy, good day!
In TurboTax Online, Self-Employed version - Federal > Deductions and Credits > Tax relief related to COVID-19 > Self-employment tax deferral, there are specific questions that customer has to answer in order to activate the deferral.
Do you (or spouse) want more time to pay your self-employment tax?
If the answer is yes, comes next question:
Whose eligibility should we check?
Enter your eligible self employment income.
Tell us how much you'd like to defer (as the program provides max deferral amount).
Once answered, the program provides a schedule of amounts due on 12/31/2021 and 12/31/2022 respectively.
Therefore, TurboTax does not automatically select to defer your self employment taxes due to the many required customer data entries.
If you still have questions, please call and have an agent examine the data entries with you. Thank you.
Hope the above helps.
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