Schedules for Form 1040

Information about Schedule A (Form 1040), Itemized Deductions, including recent updates, related forms and instructions on how to file. Schedule A (Form 1040) is used by filers to report itemized deductions.

Information about Schedule B (Form 1040), Interest and Ordinary Dividends, including recent updates, related forms and instructions on how to file. Form 1040 Schedule B is used by filers to report interest and ordinary dividend income.

Schedule C (Form 1040) is used to report income or loss from a business operated or a profession practiced as a sole proprietor. Also, use Schedule C to report wages and expenses that occured as a statutory employee. Publication 525 discusses many kinds of income (money, property, or services) and explains whether they are taxable or nontaxable. Use this schedule to report income or loss from a business you operated or a profession you practiced as a sole proprietor.

Schedule C-EZ (Form 1040) is used instead of Schedule C by qualifying small businesses and statutory employees with expenses of $5,000 or less. You can use this schedule if you operated a business or practiced a profession as a sole proprietorship or qualified joint venture, or you were a statutory employee and you have met all the requirements listed in Schedule C-EZ, Part I.

Information about Schedule D (Form 1040), Capital Gains and Losses, including recent updates, related forms and instructions on how to file. Schedule D (Form 1040) is used to report sales, exchanges or certain involuntary conversions of capital assets, certain capital gain distributions, and nonbusiness bad debts. The form includes the tax computation using maximum capital gain rates.

Information about Schedule E (Form 1040), Supplemental Income and Loss, including recent updates, related forms and instructions on how to file. Schedule E (Form 1040) is used by filers to report income from rental real estate, royalties, partnerships, S corporations, estates, trusts, and residual interests in real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs).

Information about Schedule EIC (Form 1040), Earned Income Credit, including recent updates, related forms and instructions on how to file. Schedule EIC (Form 1040) is used by filers who claim the earned income credit to give the IRS information about the qualifying child.

Information about Schedule F (Form 1040), Profit or Loss From Farming, including recent updates, related forms and instructions on how to file. Use this schedule to report farm income and expenses.

Schedule H (Form 1040) is used by household employers to report household employment taxes. Use this schedule to report household employment taxes if you paid cash wages to a household employee and the wages were subject to social security, Medicare, or FUTA taxes, or if you withheld federal income tax.

Information about Schedule J (Form 1040), Income Averaging for Farmers and Fishermen, including recent updates, related forms and instructions on how to file. Use this schedule to elect to figure your income tax by averaging, over the previous 3 years (base years), all or part of your taxable income from your trade or business of farming or fishing.

Information about Schedule R (Form 1040), Credit for the Elderly or the Disabled, including recent updates, related forms and instructions on how to file. Use this schedule to figure the credit for the elderly or the disabled.

Information about Schedule SE (Form 1040), Self-Employment Tax, including recent updates, related forms and instructions on how to file. Schedule SE (Form 1040) is used by self-employed persons to figure the self-employment tax due on net earnings.

Information about Schedule 8812 (Form 1040), Child Tax Credit, including recent updates, related forms and instructions on how to file. Schedule 8812 (Form 1040) is used by taxpayers to calculate and report both the Child Tax Credit and the Additional Child Tax Credit.