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Bring your business records together. Enter income, add eligible expenses and review your profit or loss on the original IRS schedule.
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Final 2025 IRS original · One separate business per schedule.
Add proprietor details, principal activity, accounting method and information-return answers.
Start with common categories. Open inventory, vehicle and home-office sections only when applicable.
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Prepare the original income and expense page, with conditional inventory, vehicle and itemized other expenses on page 2. Full page dimensions and white margins are preserved.
The Schedule C preparation guide explains how receipts, expenses and profit fit together. Review Schedule SE separately when preparing self-employment tax information.
This service prepares the schedule. The main return, IRS filing and separately required Form 4562, Form 7205, Form 8829, Form 6198, explanations and supporting records are not generated here.
Generally, a sole proprietor reports the profit or loss of a business or profession on Schedule C. Use a separate schedule for each separate business. Partnerships generally file Form 1065.
The final 2025 original is available. The 2026 edition will be offered when the final original is available; a draft is not substituted.
The builder calculates net receipts, cost of goods sold, gross income, total expenses and profit or loss. Eligible standard mileage uses 70¢ per business mile. Enter already deductible amounts for other categories, including meals after applicable limits.
The 2025 original uses 27a for the energy-efficient commercial building deduction from Form 7205 and 27b for itemized other expenses from Line 48. These amounts remain separate.
No. Enter the allowed result from Form 8829 or the official simplified-method worksheet, including applicable eligibility, income and area rules. Do not duplicate home-office costs in other expense categories.
No. The schedule reports its calculated loss, but at-risk, passive-activity and excess-business-loss rules may limit the amount deductible on the main return. If some investment is not at risk, Form 6198 is required separately.
Check the original Line 1 box for applicable W-2 statutory-employee income. Do not automatically treat it as ordinary self-employment income. The instructions require separate schedules for statutory and regular self-employed activities.
Schedule C has no separate signature line. Attach it to the main return and follow that return’s signing and filing instructions.
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