I finally figured this out. Apparently, in 2020 . .Intuit automatically applied to defer my self employment tax for the year. The IRS allowed this because of covid. I did not know that the program did that. Half of the deferred tax is supposed to be paid back by December 31 2021 and the other half by December 31 2022. When it was not paid back by end of 2021, they sent a notice requesting the amount plus interest. You should check your intuit tax return and see if it asked for a deferral of the self-employment tax for the year. Then see if the deferred amount is equal to 2 times the money the IRS is asking for (after subtracting the interest). Anyway, that was what I found out.
