What is your minimum filing fee for a retired senior citizen? I am not self employed, why does it keep mentioning that I am?

[DoninGA]

If you have not paid for the online edition you are using, have not filed your tax return or registered the Free edition, then you can clear your return and start over with a lower priced edition. Click on Tax Tools on the left side of the program screen while working on the 2022 online tax return. Click on Clear & Start Over.

Note - If you have entered a Form 1099-MISC with income shown in box 7 of the form or a Form 1099-NEC with income in box 1, this would indicate to the program that you are self-employed, thereby requiring the use of the Self-Employed edition to report the income and expenses for your self-employment.

[JamesG1]

If you are entering an IRS form 1099-NEC or some versions of IRS form 1099-MISC, the TurboTax software defaults to reporting self-employment income on Schedule C of the Federal 1040 tax return.  Are you reporting one of these forms?  What boxes on the forms are reporting income?

IRS Instructions for Forms 1099-MISC and 1099-NEC page  7 states:

Specific Instructions for Form 1099-NEC

File Form 1099-NEC, Nonemployee Compensation, for each person in the course of your business to whom you have paid the following during the year.  At least $600 in:

• Services performed by someone who is not your employee (including parts and materials) (box 1); or
• Payments to an attorney (box 1).

The IRS presumes that 1099-NEC income is self-employment income that is subject to self-employment income computed on Schedule SE as well as income tax computed on IRS Form 1040.

IRS TurboTax Online Self-employed can report Schedule C and self-employment income.

@karen511