What does it mean when you owe self employment tax and it says the amount is already reflected in your total refund amount? Does that mean the self employment tax has already been taken out the federa

[rjs]

Yes, the self-employment tax is added to the income tax and any other taxes on your federal tax return. Your withholding and estimated tax payments are applied to the total of all the taxes, including the self-employment tax. So if you are getting a refund, the self-employment tax has already been paid. Your refund was reduced by the amount of self-employment tax.

[Hal_Al]

To verify, your self employment tax is shown on:

• Schedule SE
• Line 4 of Schedule 2
• Line 17 of form 1040 (included with any other taxes from Schedule 2)