Negative Net Self Employment Income at start of entering data

[Wendy Von-Niessen]

I'm just starting out. Once my Tax slips were entered it showed an income summary of where all my income is coming from. I have done nothing else with it but it is showing a NEGATIVE Net Self Employment income of -$30,983.48.  How can this be when I haven't entered anything for my Self Employment Income yet.  This happened to me last year as well and I managed to delete the amount as I thought it was a glitch in the program.  But now I am thinking that perhaps there is a reason but I cannot find it out.

Last year I was using the CD version but this year am doing the online version.  I find the help for the online version very limited compared to the CD version I had. 

This year I started out using the Standard version as I want to see what my return would be without my Self-Employment.

[TurboTaxSusan]

Please contact our phone support team at 1-888-829-8608 as they will be better able to assist you.

[Wendy Von-Niessen]

I contacted that number but they have no clue and are investigating.  As the suppliers of tax software, your employees should be able to tell a customer where a field is populated from.  That figure doesnot match any of my figures but its a negative amount every year.  To randomly drlete the amount may not be a good idea if it id there for z readon.  I want my taxes to be submitted correctly.  It should not be this difficult.  I basically spent the whole afternoon with turbo tax not getting anywhere.  I'm leaving on holidays and only have a day when I get back to get my taxes done and don't want the info to be incorrect.  I shouldn't have to pay extra to speak to an expert on this issue.  

[Wendy Von-Niessen]

They said it would be 8 to 10 days for an answer.  Not acceptable at tax time!!!

[etvanvliet]

Has this been resolved? I am having the same problem. 

[TurboTaxSusan]

@etvanvliet Did you have self-employment losses from last year that transferred over?

[Wendy Von-Niessen]

When it happened to me it was not because of my losses ... it had to do with my inventory but I don't remember what it was.  Turbo Tax people did not have the answer.  I figured it out but I don't know where the paper is that I figured it out on.  I thought I emailed support the solution but I couldn't find it.  Once you have put your business info in it will go away.  If I find the papers I will come back and explain.

[TurboTaxGinette]

Thank you for the update we appreciate it.

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[etvanvliet]

Thanks for your quick response. I did not have any losses last year. It's like the program placed a minus (-) in front of what I entered for earnings. When I added my expenses, it further added to the "loss" instead of just reducing my earnings. ie if my earnings were $10,000 and I entered them as such, it instantly displayed them as a loss of $-10,000, and any expenses added after further added to the "loss." As I said, my earnings last year were not a loss so there was nothing to carry forward. I should not be in a loss situation when I'm finished entering my data. 

[TurboTaxGinette]

Looking forward to seeing how this was corrected. Thank you for your updates.

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