mironsh
New Member

My wife is my business partner but she was active on the business only for a portion of a year. Is there a way to indicate only a portion of the income as joined?

Me and my wife are filing jointly and we have a small business income from freelance jobs. At the beginning of the year I was the sole operator of this business and later on my wife has joined me and we did all the work together.

I wonder how to report this income properly?

I can think of two option but I'm not sure if either is valid:

1. I can calculate the portion of the profit made when we were working together to adjust the partnership share.

2. Indicate two separate businesses - one that was operated by myself (no partners) and the other for joined business (with a 50-50 shares)

Please advice!