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If you are self employed you pay the Social Security on your tax return. It's called the self employment tax.
Self Employment tax (Scheduled SE) is automatically generated if a person has $400 or more of net profit from self-employment. You pay 15.3% SE tax on 92.35% of your Net Profit greater than $400. The 15.3% self employed SE Tax is to pay both the employer part and employee part of Social Security and Medicare. So you get social security credit for it when you retire.
The SE tax is already included in your tax due or reduced your refund. It is on the 1040 Schedule 2 line 4 which goes to 1040 line 15. The SE tax is in addition to your regular income tax on the net profit. You do get to take off the 50% ER portion of the SE tax as an adjustment on 1040 Schedule 1 line 14 which flows to 1040 line 8a. Turbo Tax automatically calculates the SE Tax and Adjustment.
The 50% SE tax deduction only reduces your taxable income and regular income tax. It will not reduce your schedule C Net Profit or reduce the total self employment tax.
For 2019 Schedule C Net Profit or Loss now goes to 1040 Schedule 1 line 3. Then the total on schedule 1 line 9 goes to 1040 line 7a.
If you also have W2 income, you have to break out the Social Security and Medicare taxes. Only the Social Security part maxes out. Turbo Tax does it automatically for you.
Are you referring to your Self-Employment taxes? Those taxes are already entered on your tax return after completing all your self-employment income and expenses.
The SE taxes are calculated on Schedule SE.
The amount of SE taxes is entered on Schedule 2 Line 4. This amount from Schedule 2 flows to your Form 1040 Line 15. They are included in your taxes owed on Form 1040 Line 23. Or they have reduced your tax refund on Line 20.
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