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Self employment taxes include social security, medicare, and disability but what if I was already taxed that through ADP? Where would I enter those amounts?

Cell S — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:01:18 GMT

I'm Self employed, was using ADP to keep track of payments, they automatically deduct social security, medicare, disability, and unemployment. Where can I write that off in my income since I'm already being taxed the self employment tax.

Re: Self employment taxes include social security, medicare, and disability but what if I was alr...

Vanessa A — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:38:06 GMT

Do you want to take the deduction for the taxes you paid for employees or for the taxes you paid for yourself?

If you are filing your business taxes and want to deduct the taxes you paid for employees, you would report these payroll taxes by selecting the following:

Federal
Income and Expenses
Edit next to your business
Add Expenses
Scroll down and click show more until you see Taxes and Licenses and click Add Expense

Self-Employed Individuals do not pay Disability or Unemployment taxes on themselves in many states, so these entries would if paid for yourself would depend on your state.

The Social Security and Medicare Taxes that you paid in would be entered by selecting the following:

Federal
Deductions and Credits
Scroll down to Estimates and Other Taxes Paid and Click Show More
Estimated Tax Payments
Click yes, when asked if you made estimated payments
Then select the types of tax payments made
then Enter your payments and date of payments

When you file as a self-employed individual, the Social Security and Medicare taxes are part of your overall tax liability so their is not a distinction made between SS and Medicare versus your regular federal tax payments.

Re: Self employment taxes include social security, medicare, and disability but what if I was already taxed that through ADP? Where would I enter those amounts?

VolvoGirl — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 00:43:24 GMT

Do you pay employees and give them a W2? You are not suppose to pay yourself using payroll. You just fill out schedule C. You don't expense payments to yourself. It doesn't matter what you take out. The Net Profit or Loss is your personal pay and income. You pay the Self Employment tax on it. You might have a mess to clear up.

Re: Self employment taxes include social security, medicare, and disability but what if I was already taxed that through ADP? Where would I enter those amounts?

Cell S — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 02:03:32 GMT

I'm the only employee. I think I have made a mess, wanted to use ADP to show proof of use with my PPP loan but It caused this problem I wasn't aware of ahead of time. At this point I didn't see how I can clear this up. Any suggestions?

Re: Self employment taxes include social security, medicare, and disability but what if I was alr...

Cell S — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 02:05:27 GMT

This was from paying myself, which I now I know wasn't the right thing to do. But social security and those taxes were taken out throughout the year.