While I was filling out my self employment income for being an Amazon Flex Driver I was asked this question...In 2021 I did Doordash and Instacart but made less than $600 doing them.
Would. I say yes or no to this question?
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Does the Delivery Driver job relate to your self-employment with Amazon? If it does, then if you have no more income to report for the Delivery Driver work you did for Amazon, then you can select No. However, if you mean that you were a Delivery Driver and did work for several companies, such as Amazon, DoorDash, Instacart, and you only entered some of your income, then select Yes to enter your additional income.
There are situations where self-employed individuals (or independent contractors) have more than one job. If the jobs are different, for example someone is a commercial painter, and that same person is also is a delivery driver, then those individuals would likely have to keep their jobs separate for tax purposes. In other words, they would enter their income and business expenses for one job, and then would fill out another job description for their second job and include the income and business expenses for that second job. In so doing, they would have two Schedule C businesses. Schedule C is a tax form entitled Profit or Loss From Business. It looks like you will have a Schedule C when you are done completing your return.
There are other situations, and this may be what you have, where a self-employed person (or independent contractor) has multiple jobs but the jobs are very similar. Such as a delivery driver for Amazon, DoorDash, Uber, and Lyft. In this type of situation, the person can combine their multiple jobs into one general category, such as Delivery Driver, and enter their income and business expenses on one Schedule C. Because these individuals may have multiple 1099s (either 1099-Misc or 1099-NEC) they will just enter each one separately into TurboTax. Because the multiple jobs are very similar, their business expenses may also be very similar. For example, they may have mileage expenses for each job. But they also may have some expenses that are unique to each job. For example, one job may have advertising expenses, but another job, while similar, does not have advertising expenses.
The important thing to remember is to keep good records for each job. If you have more than one 1099, report each 1099 separately, and enter whatever job related expenses you have.
Thank you for the clarification, I am working with the SE this season, and this has been an issue, for many clients on how to enter this information. It eliminates multiple Schedule C's, by grouping them together. Very informative.
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