Add "Self Employed Health Insurance" Tax Line Item

Add a "Form1040: Self Employed Health Insurance" Tax Line Item and use it to accumulate the base of the "Allowable S.E. Health Insurance Deduction" field in the Tax Planner Adjustments form.

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  • Member ✭✭✭
    edited April 5

    Quicken, while searching for my own answer regarding the tax category for self-employed health insurance, I came across an old topic that had become stagnant. I want to bring this topic to the forefront again.

    There should be a way to categorize self-employed health insurance in a different tax category form other medical expense. While it is true, the expense 'may possibly' end up on Sch A, it should be separated from the beginning, and then, if there is a business profit the expense ends up on Sch 1, Line 17 as an adjustment to business income. If there is NOT a business profit, then the expense ends up on Sch A, Line 1, with the rest of the medical expenses to be itemized. But it needs to be separated from the beginning in case it can be used on Sch 1.

    If using TurboTax, I can put the self-employment health insurance in Business Expenses>Other Common Business Expenses>Insurance Payments>Health Insurance Premiums, and TurboTax will figure out where to put it between Sch 1 and Sch A (based on your business profit).

    Either way Quicken, there needs to be a tax category for self-employed insurance premiums, either under Sch C or Form 1040. It must be separated. So, as clear in the old topic, why do you keep resisting that?

    Please note - not all self-employed health insurance can be used on Sch 1. Please consult a tax professional if you have questions about whether yours can be.

    In the meantime, in Quicken, I will use something under Sch A, such as "Other taxes", or "Misc., no 2% AGI limit". This is just to separate the self-employed health insurance from other medical payments. I could also use Sch C "Unspecified Business Expense", but if using TurboTax and importing your data from Quicken, that line item will NOT import!

  • Quicken Mac Subscription SuperUser, Mac Beta Beta
    edited April 5

    Creating a new idea that duplicates an old idea does nothing except create extra work for the mods who have to merge the two threads. Since you already posted this exact same comment under the other idea, there was no need at all to make this one.

  • Quicken Windows Subscription Moderator mod

    Hello @DR806,

    Thank you for coming to the Community to provide your feedback. When I checked on our end, it looks like you use Quicken for Windows, so I merged this Idea with the existing Idea on the Windows side of the Community.

    Thank you!

    Quicken Kristina

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