To enter your self-employed health insurance deduction in TurboTax Onine, please follow these steps: Click on Income and Expenses and then click the Start/Revisit box in the Self-Employment section. On the Here's your [business] info screen, click on the box Add expenses for this work. On the Tell us about any expenses screen, scroll down through the categories, mark the radio button next to Health Insurance Premiums and click Continue at the bottom of the screen. Enter the total health insurance premiums paid on the next screen, Tell us about health insurance premiums…The premiums will show as a deduction from your gross income on line 16 of Schedule 1 on form 1040 [self-employed health insurance deduction].

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How do i input self employed health insurance deduction, schedule 1, line 16, onto online software?

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March 10, 2020
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Irene2805

To enter your self-employed health insurance deduction in TurboTax Onine, please follow these steps:

Click on Income and Expenses and then click the Start/Revisit box in the Self-Employment section.
On the Here's your [business] info screen, click on the box Add expenses for this work.
On the Tell us about any expenses screen, scroll down through the categories, mark the radio button next to Health Insurance Premiums and click Continue at the bottom of the screen.
Enter the total health insurance premiums paid on the next screen, Tell us about health insurance premiums…

The premiums will show as a deduction from your gross income on line 16 of Schedule 1 on form 1040 [self-employed health insurance deduction].

Bettysea

I have TurboTax Home & Business and don't see these same screens. How do I input self employed health insurance deduction, schedule 1, line 16 in this version of Turbo Tax?

MAK70

For TurboTax Home and Business, go to Business Expenses - Other Common Business Expenses- Insurance payments

@Bettysea

raistj

How do I do this for my scorp in 2021 turbo tax home and business. It seems that the method of entry has changed from 2020 turbo tax to 2021 turbo tax. And putting it under business income/expenses is not the correct way for a scorp.

PatriciaV

Employee

Per Expert ErnieS0:

Health insurance personally paid by an S-Corp shareholder is entered in the Schedule K-1 section.

Type k-1 in Search in the upper right
Select Jump to k-1
Keep going the the S-Corp K-1 until you reach Other Situations
Check the Box "I personally paid health insurance and/or long-term care insurance for myself and my family and this S corporation paid me wages"
Enter your Box 5 Medicare wages and health insurance premiums you paid personally

The Box 5 entry page appears in the same order as the items on the Other Situations list. So if you had carryovers, you need to work through those pages to get to the page "Self-Employed Health Insurance." Enter only premiums you paid to a provider other than Healthcare.gov.

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