I am using freetaxusa and even though I made more than 400$ in net earnings for 2024 for self employment when I filed, a schedule SE never came up for then and this is the first time I am hearing about this form. This form is not coming up for my schedule C's for 2025 either on freetaxusa even after entering all my net earnings.
What I could find online is that schedule SE "calculates the self employment tax owed, if your net self employment income is $400 or more, you are required to file this form/the amount on line 4c of Schedule SE is $400 or more"
I went to the irs site to look up this form and use it to try and calculate if it applied to me; my "net" profit from my schedule C's added up is $499.32 (gross would be $647) for 2025, so that is over $400.
I looked it up and freetaxusa does support/supply this form and I am assuming if it applied to me that freetaxusa would populate it, but it isn't and the instructions on the SE form for calculating are unclear/confusing.
Has anyone else filled this form out at all or on freetaxusa or have any advice on how to proceed? Thank you!
Does Schedule SE (self employment tax) apply to me? Tried to use SE tax form to calculate and it is unclear
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Posted by DonutOld1997
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if u file a schedule C then automatically a schedule SE should be created. Maybe the freetaxusa the SE one has a paid feature maybe?
The net threshold where you owe SE tax is actually $433 for reasons we don’t need to get into, but $499 ought to trigger it.
Do you look at the PDF at the end to see if it includes a SE? Its not a form you need to type anything into – FTU will do it automatically (and it does – it is not some kind of add on) so it isn’t listed in the FTU options..
you should also see the tax owed on line 4 of schedule 2.. that’s also not something you need to type in, it would just be included in the PDF. do you see it?