Self-employed ver. 'Setting Up': I am employed, wife self-employed. In income, it asks me what kind self-emp I do. I'm not self-emp. Can't change it. Why?

[Jocelyn-TurboTax · Accepted solution]

Yes there is an issue the team's working on fixing. In the meantime, here's how you can work around it.

• Enter enough information on the business summary screen so you can continue to the next screen (don't worry you'll delete this later)
• Once you're on the next screen click the "Find" button, search and select the option for "business"
• When you're on the business summary screen use the delete button to the right of the business that's displaying to wipe out the business associated with you.

[Jocelyn-TurboTax]

Yes, you can update your profile to remove self-employment.

In TurboTax Online from the top navigation choose Setting up > Personal Tax Profile for ...

From the "Your Tax Profile Summary" screen look for Income & work related expenses and choose Edit.

Then under the question "... did you work in 2017?" scroll down & uncheck the box next to:
I was self employed (freelancer, contractor, independent worker, professional, commission-based, farming, fishing)

[jeffsanislo]

I did that, twice. Each time when I got to the same part it would again ask how I was self-employed.

[Jocelyn-TurboTax]

Attached some screenshots of how to go back to the point to unmark that you're self employed. Once you've done this, from the main navigation go to "Income > Get Started" and when you step through this you should no longer be asked about Self-Employment for your return. Note that if you're filing as a joint return TurboTax will step you through both returns at the same time.

[jeffsanislo]

I did that, twice. It still keeps asking me how I'm self-employed when I get to that point.