If you are a fitness instructor and receiving a 1099-NEC you are considered self-employed. As you walk through TurboTax, it gives you the option to use your name as the business name and your address to enter on your Schedule C. The purpose of Schedule C is for people who "are the business", meaning you are selling services you perform or products to others.
To enter your self-employment income click the following:
- Federal
- Income and Expenses
- Show More next to Self-Employment
- Start or Revisit next to Self-Employment
- Yes, to you have any self-employment income or expenses
- Enter the type of self-employment work you do
- Click through a few more screens and you will get to a screen that says "Your XX info"
- Click Looks good
- Then you will come to a screen that says Let's enter the income for your business. It will give you the option of 1099-NEC or Other self-employed income including the 1099K , cash and checks. Select the one that applies to you and hit continue
- If you do not select one, it will not let you enter your income
- Enter your self-employment income on the next screen