1099 NEC child summer Internship

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My 18 years old child student got a 1099 NEC from his school installing computers in summer as an Internship and made $ 1500.

I know he has to file his own taxes but is very confusing how to do it. Turbo tax send to to do schedule C ? He has no a business.... no idea how to fill it out or T tax has an option that show ( this is no money earned as an employee or self employed individual, it is from a sporadic activity or hobby.... some other post have totally different ways to do it....lots of taxpayers lost like me thank you

Vanessa AAnswer

Alumni - Intuit

She worked at the school installing new computers for 6 weeks. The form 1099 NEC payer Is Miami Dade county Public schools, the form shows Summer Youth Internship program paid as stipend..

If your form is showing that it was a Summer Youth Program paid as a Stipend, then you would enter it as Other Reportable Income by selecting

Income
Show More next to Less Common Income
Start next to Misc Income
Start next to Other Reportable Income
Enter the income as Other Taxable Income with a description of Taxable Stipend from Miami Dade Public Schools and the Amount

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Bsch4477

Level 15

Report as other income.

Federal Taxes -> Wages & Income -> I'll choose what I work on -> scroll to the bottom and under Less Common Income select Start (or Update) for Miscellaneous Income.... You'll find all sorts of other income categories in there. If none of those shown fit the bill then pick Other reportable income and you can enter your own description(s) and amount(s).

gems7798

Level 2

Our daughter also 'earned' $ from a college internship and received a 1099-NEC. I can see where to enter the information from the form received. An NEC form says at the top that it is for is for Nonemployee Compensation. So, I would take it from that, that the entity paying the student didn't consider them an employee.

In the follow-up Turbo Tax asks if the income is:

-from owning a farm

-income that should have been on a W-2 instead

-from a lawsuit settlement

-not earned as an employee or from self-employment, (rather) from a sporadic activity or hobby

-a Medicaid waiver payment

-none of the above

If the entity issued an NEC then they aren't considering the student an employee, yet the student didn't consider themselves self-employed. So it is correct to choose that it is from sporadic activity? Or should 'None of the above' be chosen?

Thank you.