I deleted out the start up costs for me and my spouse - since we own the company equally I had to create the business under both of our names, and I was putting all the exact same costs for us both (50% of the total). Once I deleted out the start upcosts, I entered one cost to make sure it is working... what I noticed is that when I enter a 'start up cost' under my spouse, it automatically adds that same amount under my 'other misc expenses' category. That is why my costs were initially wrong, because it is automatically adding the start up costs from the other person into the other misc expenses. By doing this, I am not able to enter all my start up costs because they will be double counted in the other person's misc expenses.
If I enter 50% of all start up costs under my spouse, and it automatically creates the same amount under my misc expenses, the total expenses will be correct, but then the amortized amount wont' be right because the costs over $5k would not be entered as a start up cost.
Spouse start up = $500
Spouse other misc expenses = $0
My start up = $0
My other misc expenses = $500
Is this supposed to happen, that the start up costs from one spouse are automatically added as a misc other expense for the other spouse? This is all because turbotax requires us to enter both partners separately rather than being able to associate us both to one self-employment entry.
