To enter this income as a hobby, you will select the following:
- Federal
- Income and Expenses
- Scroll down to Less Common Income and click Show More
- Start next to Miscellaneous Income
- Start next to Other Reportable Income
If however, he is doing this with the intent to make a profit, then it would need to be reported as income from self-employment. Simply enjoying what he does, does not necessarily make it a hobby if he is purposely making money from it.
To enter it as 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 on