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My husband is a minister with salary and housing allowance. Where do I enter this information?

 
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MinhT
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My husband is a minister with salary and housing allowance. Where do I enter this information?

You will report your Form W-2 under Wages and Income in the Wages and Salaries section.

Once you have reported your W-2 information, exactly as it appears on your Form W-2, click continue.

You may be asked to verify some numbers.

Keep going until you get to the page titled “Do any of these uncommon situations apply to this W-2”?

Click the box beside Religious Employment.

You will be asked about your religious employment.

Next you will have a box to enter your housing allowance as well as your qualifying expenses.

Enter your housing allowance amount and how much of the allowance you used on your housing.

On the following page, you will asked what amount(s) should have self-employment taxes calculated for.

If you had social security and medicare withheld from your wages, you would need to indicate to pay self-employment taxes on the housing allowance only. If you did not have social security and medicare withheld from your wages, indicate that you need to pay self-employment tax on wages and housing allowance.

Click continue and you are done!


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MinhT
Expert Alumni

My husband is a minister with salary and housing allowance. Where do I enter this information?

You will report your Form W-2 under Wages and Income in the Wages and Salaries section.

Once you have reported your W-2 information, exactly as it appears on your Form W-2, click continue.

You may be asked to verify some numbers.

Keep going until you get to the page titled “Do any of these uncommon situations apply to this W-2”?

Click the box beside Religious Employment.

You will be asked about your religious employment.

Next you will have a box to enter your housing allowance as well as your qualifying expenses.

Enter your housing allowance amount and how much of the allowance you used on your housing.

On the following page, you will asked what amount(s) should have self-employment taxes calculated for.

If you had social security and medicare withheld from your wages, you would need to indicate to pay self-employment taxes on the housing allowance only. If you did not have social security and medicare withheld from your wages, indicate that you need to pay self-employment tax on wages and housing allowance.

Click continue and you are done!


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chjahnke
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My husband is a minister with salary and housing allowance. Where do I enter this information?

For 2018, you need to select wages only.  Turbo Tax Home and Business calculates differently than previous years.  Always verify Schedule SE Adjustment Worksheet Part II lines 5a & b to see they are correct, then Schedule SE should be correct after that.
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