topic Self Employed Health Insurance Deduction Allows More than 50% in Deductions & credits

Self Employed Health Insurance Deduction Allows More than 50%

JJOY — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:31:39 GMT

My MFJ return has two Schedule C's that take the Self Employed Health Insurance Deduction - one for me and one for my wife. Both Schedule C worksheets are transferring more than 50% of the Health Insurance deduction to Schedule 1. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? I'm expecting it to be capped at 50%.

The 1040 has 4 Schedule C's is total. The other two do not have anything in the SE Health Insurance deduction. At first they did, but the numbers have now been zeroed out.

Re: Self Employed Health Insurance Deduction Allows More than 50%

dmertz — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 22:03:07 GMT

For each of these two Schedule C businesses you should be entering only that business's 50% share of the health insurance premiums paid so that the total on Schedule 1 does not exceed the total paid for SE Health Insurance.

Re: Self Employed Health Insurance Deduction Allows More than 50%

JJOY — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 17:07:49 GMT

Thank you, that worked!