bothfeet123[at]hotmail.com (BothFeet) wrote:

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You ARE an independent contractor and must use Schedule C to
report the income received. Subtract your legitimate
expenses of earning this income, and calculate the net
profit. If this latter number is less than $400 you won't
owe any SE taxes. If over, you need to use Schedule SE to
calculate the self-employment tax.

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BothFeet wrote:

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Yes.

With the facts you give, your 1099s constitutes
self-employment income, even if for the same employer,
because it is a different job.

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That's were it goes.

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I have two questions.

My first question is do I count myself as self employed or
not? For all of 2003 I had a regular, full time job.
Federal income tax, social security, Medicare and anything
else necessary was withheld. I received a W-2 and entered
that into Turbo Tax, no problem.

I also received a 1099-Misc for non-employee compensation.
I did two side jobs (programming) during 2003 for my old
employer for about $800 total. Reading the 1040
instructions it seems that if I am not self employed then I
can just add this total in on line 7 and be done with it.
If I am self employed I need to use Schedule C and pay self
employment tax.

Am I self employed in this situation? I just did a few side
jobs on request, I am not really in the business of
providing computer services.

My next question is regarding Turbo Tax for the web. Turbo
tax will let me use the Schedule C method. But I don't know
how to enter the 1099 income in Turbo Tax without using
Schedule C.

Any help would be so appreciated!!!!

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