You are self-employed if you received payments for your work, but you did not receive a tax form. Use your own records to determine your total income and report it as 'cash' on Schedule C Business Income and Expenses.
Use the following steps to get started with the Schedule C:
- On the top row of the TurboTax online screen, click on Search (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax locate the search box in the upper right corner)
- This opens a box where you can type in “schedule c” (be sure to enter exactly as shown here) and click the magnifying glass (or for CD/downloaded TurboTax, click Find)
- The search results will give you an option to “Jump to schedule c”
- Click on the blue “Jump to schedule c” link