Being self-employed means you're a sole proprietor and your business is a sole proprietorship.

Sole proprietorships:

• Are owned by one person—you don't have any partners
• Are unincorporated—you haven't filed any legal forms to incorporate your business
• Have no legal distinction between the owner and the business—you are entitled to all the income, but also must pay the bills, including taxes

A married couple can be considered sole proprietors when they elect on their 1040 to treat their jointly owned and operated business as a qualified joint venture.

Organizations that aren't sole-proprietorships:

• Partnership
• Corporation
• S corporation
• Limited Liability Company (LLC), except a single-member LLC that doesn't elect to be treated as a corporation

When you're a sole proprietor, you'll need to file Form 1040 (Individual Income Tax Return) with a Schedule C to calculate your net profit or loss.

Once we determine you have self-employment income, we create your Schedule C and also review the income and expenses associated with your business.

Related Information:

Where do I enter Schedule C?

·         If you're self-employed, it's likely you need to fill out an IRS Schedule C to report how much money you made or lost in your business.

·         We'll automatically complete Schedule C for you when you add your self-employment income in TurboTax (usually Form 1099-NEC or 1099-MISC). It gets attached to your Form 1040, which we'll also handle for you.

·         If you need Schedule C to report a 1099-NEC or 1099-MISC, search for 1099-NEC or 1099-misc and select the Jump to link. We'll ask questions to find out if your 1099 income needs to go on Schedule C.

  ·         What's different now that I'm self-employed in 2021?

 ·         Does a 1099-NEC or 1099-MISC mean I'm self-employed?

Take a look at your form. A 1099-NEC having an amount in box 1 and 1099-MISC with an amount in boxes 1, 5, 9, or 10 is a good indicator that it's self-employment income.

Whether you’re a sole proprietor, an independent contractor, a consultant or a freelancer, you’re probably getting some or all of your income reported on a 1099-NEC, 1099-MISC or 1099-K. You have flexibility to work the way you want, but it also means the government considers you to be self-employed — or even a business.

Follow these instructions to enter a 1099-NEC and/or 1099-MISC form. After you enter the info from your form, we’ll ask you a few questions to make sure it’s for self-employment. If not, we’ll link it to the correct income section of your return.

1099-MISC unrelated to self-employment

A non-work 1099-MISC would be for things like:

• Prize money
• Lawsuit settlements
• Research studies
• Other

Here how to enter a 1099-MISC that you may have received for another reason.

After you enter the info from your form, we’ll ask you a few questions to determine what type of 1099-MISC it is and link it to the correct income section of your return.

Key Points on 1099-NEC or 1099-MISC and Other Self-Employment Income

When you’re paid this way, there’s no withholding taken out of your income, which means you’ll pay both self-employment tax as well as income tax.

A benefit of being self-employed is that it enables you to have lots of write-offs as well, so make sure to enter all your expenses. This helps you reduce the taxes you might owe or increase your refund. We’ll help you get every possible tax break you deserve.

  What types of returns does TurboTax Business handle?

• Corporation
• S corporation
• Partnership and Limited Liability Company (LLC
• Estates and Trusts

C Corporations (Form 1120), 6 pages

A C Corporation (usually simply called a "corporation") is a separate legal entity that offers the greatest flexibility with respect to ownership and the free transferability of ownership interest.

Corporations file their own tax returns using Form 1120 to report income and losses.

Income is first taxed at the corporate level and, when distributed as dividends, the same money is taxed again at the shareholder level. As a result, income generated by a corporation can be taxed twice.

S Corporations (Form 1120S), 5 pages

An S Corporation is a small business corporation, usually with less than 100 shareholders, which has elected to have its profits pass through to its shareholders, in the same manner as a partnership or sole proprietorship.

The owners (shareholders) of an S Corporation receive the benefit of limited liability, and are treated in the manner of partners for purposes of taxation. Income and losses from the business are passed directly to the shareholders, who then report their share of those amounts on their personal tax return. The S corporation itself will file an 1120S.

Partnerships and Multi-Member LLCs (Form 1065) 5 pages

Partnerships are a type of unincorporated business organization in which multiple owners, or partners, manage the business and are equally liable for its debts.

Unlike an LLC or a corporation, each partner shares equal responsibility for the company's profits, losses, debts, and liabilities.

The partnership itself doesn't pay income taxes, but each partner has to report their share of business profits or losses on their individual tax return. The partnership will also file a Form 1065 tax return.

Limited Liability Companies (LLCs) are a type of business structure that combines the advantages of a corporation with those of a sole proprietorship or partnership.

Multi-member LLC profits and tax benefits are split by its owners (members). LLC returns are filed only for reporting purposes; the members report their business profits or losses on their individual (Form 1040) tax returns.

Not all multi-member LLC will file a 1065, however. A few will need to file as a corporation (Form 1120).

Estates and Trusts (Form 1041) 2 pages

An estate consists of personal, real, and intangible property that was owned by someone at the time of their death, whereas a trust is an arrangement whereby property is given by one person (the settler) to be held by another (the trustee) for the purposes of benefiting a specific class of persons or the general public (the charitable purpose).

Tax returns filed on the behalf of estates and trusts are also called fiduciary returns. A fiduciary is an individual or organization legally responsible for managing assets on behalf of another party, usually called the beneficiary. The fiduciary is obligated to manage the beneficiary's assets in the best interests of the beneficiary.

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