Thanks LenaH. I am asking this for a friend of my daughter. The income was an hourly job, and the employer gave a 1099-NEC instead of a W-2. She put it on the tax form as Other Income. It sounds like that makes it ineligible for Homestead credit income, since she's not using a schedule C. She doesn't have a business, it was a job she got hired for, and he ended up giving her a 1099-NEC. When would a schedule C be required?
In your example, just as in the WI instructions example, the net earnings from self-employment are in parentheses, indicating a negative net, right? (income minus expenses) But if your net was positive, you would add it to wages to get the total. I am only asking because the examples all have net earnings as negative, and I wondered if that is because they can't be counted even if they are positive, or if those examples just happen to have a negative net.
