

Each of you must also file a separate Schedule SE (Form 1040) to pay self-employment tax, as applicable. On each line of your separate Schedule C or F (Form 1040), you must enter your share of the applicable income, deduction, or loss. Each of you must file a separate Schedule C or F (Form 1040). To make this election, you must divide all items of income, gain, loss, deduction, and credit between you and your spouse in accordance with your respective interests in the venture. By making the election, you will not be required to file Form 1065 for any year the election is in effect and will instead report the income and deductions directly on your joint return.Ī qualified joint venture conducts a trade or business where the only members of the joint venture are a married couple who file a joint return both spouses materially participate in the trade or business (because mere joint ownership of property isn’t enough) both spouses elect not to be treated as a partnership and the business is co-owned by both spouses and isn't held in the name of a state law entity such as a partnership or limited liability company. If you and your spouse materially participate as the only members of a jointly owned and operated business, and you file a joint return for the tax year, you can make an election to be treated as a qualified joint venture instead of a partnership.
