Did they take out Social Security & Medicare taxes in boxes 4 & 6? You should have noticed they were paying you as an employee not as independent contractor and taking deductions. Sorry you have to report it under Wages and not on Schedule C.
But yes ask them about it.
Form W-2 reports wages and salaries paid to you as an employee, along with other information such Federal and state withholding taxes, Social security and Medicare taxes and other retirement information.
It does not report business income. Amounts paid to you as a self-employed person or a business entity are reported on form 1099-NEC as Non-employee compensation.
Please read this TurboTax article for more information.
In my case, the company that I did work for, issued a W2 instead of a 1099-NEC. Is the only way to correct this is to have the company issue a corrected W2 with no wages and a new 1099-NEC?
Did they take out Social Security & Medicare taxes in boxes 4 & 6? You should have noticed they were paying you as an employee not as independent contractor and taking deductions. Sorry you have to report it under Wages and not on Schedule C.
But yes ask them about it.