How do you enter taxes already paid on your Schedule H for a household employee? I'm not getting prompted for tax paid in the "Nanny & Household Employee Tax" prompts.

[andrew.poker]

This is our first year with a household employee. In the "Uncommon Tax Situations" I used the "Nanny and Household Employee Tax" thread to fill in our Schedule H information about what we paid our Nanny and the related employer taxes due. However, we have paid these as we go through our payroll provider so there shouldn't be any net new tax liability from this. I can't figure out where to enter the taxes paid in Turbotax. Since TT dosen't have that information, it is calculating our tax liability as if we didn't pay any of this already, which is materially inflating our tax liability incorrectly. Does anyone know how to tell turbotax what we already paid so it can properly calculate our liability? If we already paid this, should we just not be filling out a Schedule H at all?

[KeshaH · Accepted solution]

You would enter these payments as estimated tax payments.

1. Log into your TurboTax account. On the Tax Home screen, choose Deductions & Credits and click Review/Edit or Pick up where you left off.

2. Scroll to Estimates and Other Taxes Paid and choose Start next to Estimated Tax Payments.

3. On the next screen, choose Start next to Federal estimated taxes for 2024 (Form 1040-ES).

4. Choose yes, and then enter the payments you made and the corresponding dates.

[andrew.poker]

That worked perfectly - thank you.

[eclairebb]

Do you then still answer the questions to file 1040 Schedule H even though one has already been filed by a payroll service?  Or do you answer the questions as if you don't have a household employee?

Thanks!

[AmyC]

Yes, if you have a household employee, Sch H will capture all the taxes that should be paid. You issued a w2 connecting your information and the employees. It needs to all come together here.

Then, any taxes you have already paid are captured as Kesha stated above. This means you will not be paying the same tax again.

[jiminrb]

I have the same issue, Household Employer Taxes Already Paid but I can't find where to claim the payments.

I followed the link given to report the household taxes I already paid, however, the Estimated Taxes Paid  explanation of what type of issues this covers, it says things like Alimony, Gains from selling stocks, interest and dividend income. This seems like it's for money I earned but no taxes were taken out so I paid  Estimate Payments on my own. Not for Household Employer taxes paid. do I enter the Household Employer taxes paid here anyway?

[IsabellaG]

Yes, you will enter your payments in the Estimated Taxes Paid in order to get credit for those payments against your total tax, which will include the tax from Schedule H.

[Annraj]

Do we delete the schedule H form that was created then?

[Annraj]

My payroll company made the schedule H form which I uploaded to turbo tax.  Should I also keep the form created in Turbo tax or delete that form?

[ThomasM125]

You should only have one Schedule H in TurboTax, so delete the extra one.

Follow these instructions:

1. Choose the Tax Tools option on your left menu bar while working on your return

2. Choose Tools

3. Choose the Delete a form option under Other Helpful links 

4. Find the duplicate schedule H in the list of forms and delete it

@Annraj 

[kgaro113]

We are in this situation also and SurePayroll created Sched H for us. We paid taxes all through 2025 through SurePayroll. Do we attach the SurePayroll Sched H to TT somehow? If yes, how?
We already entered our estimated payments made throughout 2025 in 1040-ES in TT. 
Why doesn't TT have this comprehensively documented end to end? Seems like a common enough situation! The Sched H "wizard" is extremely unhelpful.

[MonikaK1]

You can report both the wages and the withholding in the Schedule H section of TurboTax, under Additional Tax Payments.

Here's how to get to the Schedule H section of TurboTax to report the wages and taxes, if you haven't uploaded the form prepared by the payroll company:

1. Open or continue your return in TurboTax.
2. Search for household employee taxes, sch h (use this exact term including the comma and space).
3. Select the Jump to link at the top of the search results.

If the Jump To feature isn't working, scroll down to the Uncommon Tax Situations, select the Additional Tax Payments section, and open it by selecting Show More. Click on the Start or Edit button next to Nanny and Household Employee Tax. 

Since you mentioned a payroll company, they may already have completed all of the necessary forms. 

If you have a prepared form from a service, enter payment details under "Estimated and Other Income Taxes Paid"

The following is for your information. 

As mentioned in this help article, if you pay a household employee cash wages of $2,800 or more for 2025, then you need to withhold and report both Social Security and Medicare taxes from their pay. This is required regardless of whether the payments qualify you for the Child and Dependent Care Credit. Additionally, if you pay total cash wages of $1,000 or more in any calendar quarter of 2024 or 2025 to household employees, you are liable for Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) taxes. 
 

You aren't required to withhold federal income taxes from your household employees' pay, but you can. If you and your employee agree to do this, IRS Publication 15 Circular E, Employer’s Tax Guide can guide you through this process.

If you must withhold and pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, or if you withhold federal income tax, you'll need to complete Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement for each employee. You'll also need a Form W-3, Transmittal of Wage and Tax Statement. See "What Forms Must You File?" in Publication 926 for information on when and where to furnish and file these forms. 

See this tax tips article for more information about Schedule H.

@kgaro113