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How do I enter expenses for income I received on a 1099-MISC (box 7)? I am a professor and do not have a registered business name

I am a university professor and received a 1099-MISC for writing sections in a textbook (Box 7: non-employee compensation). After reading the responses to other questions, it looks like this income is subject to self employment taxes which would allow me to deduct business expenses on that income. 

How do I enter my expenses into Turbo Tax if my "business" does not have a name? 

After selecting "Business Income & Expenses" Schedule C, I am prompted to enter the name of my business and an address. Should I enter my own name and home address? Or leave these sections blank and continue to the next page?

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MinhT
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How do I enter expenses for income I received on a 1099-MISC (box 7)? I am a professor and do not have a registered business name

Your business does not have to have a name. You should use your own name and address.

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How do I enter expenses for income I received on a 1099-MISC (box 7)? I am a professor and do not have a registered business name

You don't need a business name.  Just use your own name.

You need to report all your income even if you don't get a 1099Misc. You use your own records.  You are considered self employed and have to fill out a schedule C for business income.   You use your own name, address and ssn or business name and EIN if you have one.   You should say you use the Cash Accounting Method and all income is At Risk.   

After it asks if you received any 1099Misc it will ask if you had any income not reported on a 1099Misc. You should be keeping your own records.  Just go through the interview and answer the questions.   Then you will enter your expenses.

Self Employment tax (Scheduled SE) is automatically generated if a person has $400 or more of net profit from self-employment.  You pay 15.3% SE tax on 92.35% of your Net Profit greater than $400.  The 15.3% self employed SE Tax is to pay both the employer part and employee part of Social Security and Medicare.  So you get social security credit for it when you retire.  You do get to take off the 50% ER portion of the SE tax as an adjustment on Schedule 1 line 27.  The SE tax is already included in your tax due or reduced your refund.  It is on the Schedule 4 line 57.  The SE tax is in addition to your regular income tax on the net profit.

Here is some IRS reading material……

IRS information on Self Employment
http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employed/Self-Employed-Individuals-Tax-Center

Pulication 334, Tax Guide for Small Business
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p334.pdf

Publication 535 Business Expenses
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p535.pdf


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