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Reporting babysitting income as wages is required if she:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Was subject to your will as to what and how the babysitting duties were to be carried out<\/li>\n<li>Babysat in your home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If your mom is your employee, you&#8217;re required to provide her with a W-2 if you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paid her more than $1,900 in the year<\/li>\n<li>Withheld taxes from her earnings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your mom is self-employed if either of these applies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She&#8217;s in the business of providing childcare.<\/li>\n<li>She depends on the income.<\/li>\n<li>She puts time and effort into the activity &#8212; This shows that she intends to make it profitable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If she&#8217;s self-employed, she should:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enter her babysitting income on Schedule C.<\/li>\n<li>Deduct expenses she incurred to earn her babysitting income on Schedule C.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Her babysitting earnings minus her babysitting expenses might be $400 or more. If so, she must also file Schedule SE and pay self-employment tax.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, if you&#8217;re caring for a relative, you don&#8217;t have a profit motive; rather you&#8217;re doing it to help the relative. In this case, your mother wouldn&#8217;t be subject to self-employment tax. However, she would need to report the payments as taxable income on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrblock.com\/tax-center\/irs\/forms\/form-1040\/\">Form 1040<\/a>, Line 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. Your mother is responsible for reporting babysitting income in the circumstance you have described. Reporting babysitting income as wages is required if she: Was subject to your will as to what and how the babysitting duties were to be carried out Babysat in your home If your mom is your employee, you&#8217;re required to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-income","category-other-income"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<title>Reporting Babysitting Income | H&amp;R Block<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn more about reporting babysitting income on your federal taxes with help from the tax experts at H&amp;R Block.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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