Does UPE reduce self-employment tax

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  • taxxcpa
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2007
    • 978

    #1

    Does UPE reduce self-employment tax

    If a taxpayer has 160,000 partnership income and unreimbursed partnership expense of $ 5000, does the $ 5000 reduce the amount subject to medicare tax? Since SS is maxed out, the only question is for the 2.9% for MCare--but every dollar counts.
  • BHoffman
    Senior Member
    • Feb 2008
    • 1768

    #2
    Yep it does reduce SE tax.

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    • taxxcpa
      Senior Member
      • Nov 2007
      • 978

      #3
      Upe

      I thought it should reduce the SE tax but my program wasn't deducting it. I finally found that I needed to check a box indicating the partner was a GENERAL partner. After I checked that box, it reduced the SE tax.

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