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February 1, 2020
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How do I fill the following Entry: Schedule C (consulting) -- Schedule C Worksheet: Amount - Misc Exp Other must be entered.Amount - Misc Exp Other??

  • February 1, 2020
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Best answer by JotikaT2

You can delete this input line for any non-applicable miscellaneous business expenses in the Federal interview section.

  1. Select Income & Expenses 
  2. Select Self-employment income and expenses 
  3. On the screen titled Your 2020 self-employed work summary, select edit to the right of the applicable business activity.
  4. On the next page, you will be able to edit expenses.
  5. Scroll down to and select Edit to the right of Miscellaneous expenses.
  6. On the next page titled Let's enter the miscellaneous expenses for your business work, select the trash can to the right of the expenses that no longer applies.

Delete misc expenses

 

If you are unable to delete, go ahead and enter a few characters and amounts, and then select the trash can to delete the input.  This should remove the input and allow you to proceed with your return.

 

@dino77

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February 23, 2020

2 ERROR MESSAGES:  (1) Schedule C:  Other expenses text is invalid.  Please remove all preceding spaces or invalid characters.     (2)  Schedule C:  Misc. exp. must be entered .  The form has no information entered.  

Error message (1) When information is entered in the easy step entry, information is not entered on form.

Error message (2) Even when no description or amount is entered for misc exp, the error message will not clear.

What's up??

February 25, 2020

Gee I am a Turbo Tax deluxe or paid the top price user.

I too have been hit with this issue of the Misc Exp Other. TurboTax will not accept 10.00 or 0.0 or 0 or blank. It does not explain the error. As a retired software engineer this stinks like a software bug. I Went here to find help and it appears to be the blind leading the blind. Where the f'ing TurboTax customer support. User pay and then get chance to provide support to other users in need so turbotax execs can get bigger earnings???

July 14, 2020

I have the same problem and I'm sorry to say, don't have a solution.  I don't expect a fix real soon.

April 15, 2023

I clicked on live chat. Then clicked on "Talk to live Person".

 

Make sure its the chat and NOT "Live Tax Help".

 

I clicked for them to call me. After about a minute or so, an agent called. She ultimately had to view my computer while I entered 0 in the box. It then let me finish filing my taxes.