Business & farm

I believe you will be fine.

Let TT compute the return and review it.

The instructions indicate "if line 3 includes income from guaranteed payments....."

Guaranteed payments in general are an expense of the partnership not income.

What the instructions are most likely referring to is if in a tiered partnership context, the partnership received a K-1 with guaranteed payments (income) then subtract those out on line 7.

Instructions are not always the model of clarity.

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