@DawnC
thank you! I found out that the way I entered in my income was triggering "self employment tax" on a schedule 2. All I need to know is how to enter cash deposits that DONT require the self employment tax. (It seems very counter-intuitive that the feds would ask for $10k+ when my AGI ended up at -$55k.)
I tried "freelance" with adding income via bank account. After removing that I tried "home business" in my personal name which triggered the schedule C.
Is there any other way to show the deposits without getting the self employment penalty?
