TurboTax Product Choice

[AlbertaSenior]

I filed using a self-employed form for both my senior mother and my two kids, none of whom are self employed and have no self employment deductions. For some reason Intuit did not alert me to the fact I was using a more powerful and expensive tax form than needed. How do I ensure this does not happen again in 2026? And when I go to start a new return for them, it does not give me the option to downgrade my choice away from self-employed.  Frustrating  

Thanks. 

AlbertaSenior

[TurboTaxSusan]

The CRA considers to be self-employment or business income:

• T4 slip: box 81, 82 or 83
• T4A slip: box 20 or 48
• T4A slip: box 28 and you answered Yes to the question Does the income declared in Box 028 consist of fees collected for services you provided? in TurboTax Online
• T3 slip: box 24 (foreign business income)

If you have an amount in any of these boxes, TurboTax will ask additional questions to report the income as self-employment/business income. Also, in TurboTax Do It Yourself (Online), rental income is only supported in the Self-Employed version.

The version of TurboTax Do It Yourself (Online) that you are using is shown in multiple places, including at the beginning of starting a completely new return and Order Summary. If you transfer a return from the previous year, it will start off with whatever version you used in that year (though you have the option to change it).