I've scrolled through numerous Mturk tax threads and Googled my way into oblivion. I just have a few simple (I hope) questions that I can't seem to find the answers to. If I earned $475 on MTurk at the end of 2013 but I was otherwise an unemployed full-time college student: 1) What tax form do I use? 1040-EZ? 1099-MISC? Schedule C-EZ? 2) How do I calculate the tax rate I need to pay? From what I can gather it's either 12 or 15-16% for self-employed independent contractors (SS and Medicare taxes). If that's the case, that's pretty brutal. Woulda been better off just making $399 to stay under the $400 threshold!