Tax Tips for Uber, Lyft, Sidecar and other Car Sharing Drivers FAQ
https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/tax-tips/Self-Employment-Taxes/Tax-Tips-for-Uber--Lyft--Sideca... How to get the Lyft discount
https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/4237789-why-isn-t-my-lyft-discount-being-applied-to-my-turbotax-ac... You will need to file a schedule C in your personal tax return for self employment income. You will need to use the Self Employed Online version to fill out schedule C.
Here is some 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 Self Employment tax (Scheduled SE) is generated if a person has $400 or more of net profit from self-employment on Schedule C. You pay 15.3% for 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. The SE tax is in addition to your regular income tax on the net profit.
You can enter Cash Income into Online Deluxe or Premier but if you have any expenses you will have to upgrade to the Self Employed version.
You can include the other income as cash on your return and you will not need the 1099. To do so, follow the steps below.
Go into your account with Turbo Tax
Select Federal Taxes, then
Select Income and Wages, then
Scroll down and select, Self-Employment - Income & Expenses - Start
Say YES to Did you have Self Employment Income (if that screen comes up)
Then Tell Us The Type Of Self Employment Work You Do, here you can put in a description and Continue
The next screen will be Let's Get Income, here you will select 'Additional Income'. This is for cash income.
Then continue as you normally do with your return.
There is also QuickBooks Self Employment bundle you can check out which includes one Turbo Tax Online Self Employed return....
http://quickbooks.intuit.com/self-employed
