Self Employed

JohnX10001 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:13:42 GMT

If Self Employed, does TT calculate for SS tax or is that something that needs to manually inputted?

Re: Self Employed

Vanessa A — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:16:54 GMT

When you enter your self-employment income, TurboTax will generate a Schedule SE and will calculate your SS and Medicare taxes. These taxes will be 15.3% of your profit for the year.

Re: Self Employed

dmertz — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 18:45:39 GMT

"These taxes will be 15.3% of your profit for the year."

That's slightly inaccurate. SE tax will generally be 15.3% of 92.35% of net profit because a portion of SE tax is considered to be the employer portion that reduces the amount of net profit. That means that SE tax is typically about 14.13% of net profit.

Re: Self Employed

VolvoGirl — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 18:06:24 GMT

You pay Self Employment tax (Scheduled SE) on a Net Profit of $400 or more on Schedule C in addition to regular income tax on it. You pay 15.3% SE tax on 92.35% of your Net Profit (If it is 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 will be automatically included in your tax due or reduce your refund. It is on the 1040 Schedule 2 line 4 which goes to 1040 line 23. 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 15 which flows to 1040 line 10.

The SE tax includes what you already paid in from your W2s so your schedule SE tax will only be the difference up to the max amount of $9,932.40 for social security. The max income for social security for 2023 is $160,200 between W2 wages and the schedule C Net Profit. If you also have W2 income, you have to break out the Social Security and Medicare taxes. Only the Social Security part maxes out.

For 2023 the max for Social Security is $9,932.40 on $160,200 of wages (160,200 x 6.2%).

Medicare is 2.9% (both er & ee parts) of all wages and 92.35% of Schedule C Net Profit - no max.

You are paying 15.3% for……

SS for employer 6.2% (up to 160,200 wages & profit)

SS for employee 6.2% (up to 160,200 wages & profit)

Medicare for employer 1.45% (on all wages & profit, no max)

Medicare for employee 1.45% (on all wages & profit, no max)

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