Thanks for your reply. I finally was able to talk with a human being at TurboTax, & he explained that the $994 referred to a half-off deduction for the full self-employment tax. So I still ow the full $1988, but half that amount was deducted elsewhere. Or something like that. (I'm obviously not a tax expert.) In the end, I attribute the confusion to lack of clarity in the wording TurboTax had in explaining along the way. But next time I'll know.
Thanks again.
