AliciaP1
Expert Alumni

Self employed

Unless you really operate 10 different self-employment businesses, you do not need to be entering each 1099-NEC as a separate business.  Also, you are not required to enter the specifics of each 1099 into TurboTax, only the total income for your business.

 

You may find it most helpful to delete the forms you have entered and enter the sum total of them as well as any cash or checks you received by following these steps:

To delete a specific form in TurboTax Online you can follow these steps:

  1. Within your return, click on Tax Tools in the black menu on the left side of the screen.
  2. Click on Tools.
  3. Click on Delete a Form
  4. Scroll down to your form and click Delete.
  5. Under Federal in the black menu bar click Wages & Income to get back into your tax returns.

 

To do this in TurboTax Desktop you can follow these steps:

  1. Within your return, click on the Forms icon in the upper right of the screen to switch to Forms mode.
  2. Scroll down in the menu bar on the left and select your form.
  3. Click the Delete Form button at the bottom left of the preview screen.
  4. Confirm the deletion then click the Step-by-Step icon in the upper right of the screen.

Then to enter your income:

  1. Open or continue your return in TurboTax.
  2. Search for self employed income (use this exact phrase, don't add a hyphen) and select the Jump to link at the top of the search results.
  3. Answer Yes on the Did you have any self-employment income or expenses? screen.
    • If you land on the Your 2022 self-employed work summary page, select Review next to the work you're adding income for
  4. Answer the questions on the following screens until you arrive at Let's enter the income for your work.
  5. Scroll down to the Income section and click Add income for this work.
  6. Choose Other self-employed income and Continue.
  7. Proceed entering/reviewing your return.

[Edited 4/1/23 | 9:19AM PDT]

 

@MDSheldon 

**Say "Thanks" by clicking the thumb icon in a post
**Mark the post that answers your question by clicking on "Mark as Best Answer"