i have a question regarding household employee income. my question is that if i made $7304. in doing odd jobs, cleaning,etc from several different employers, in which i did not recieve any w2's. do i need to provide an explaination form anywhere? and is the only place i report income is in the other income catagory? even though it says enter household income under $1700.? thanks for your help

“my question is that if i made $7304. in doing odd jobs, cleaning, etc from several different employers, in which i did not receive any w2's. do i need to provide an explanation form anywhere?”----->As long as you perform household services in or around your ER’s home subject to your ER’s will and control, as to both what must be done and how it will be done, that you are ER’s h/h EE;then your ER must issue you a W2 as long as you, as a h/h EE, receive $1,700 or more in cash wages from any one ER that pays you $1,700 or more in cash wages. At the end of every tax year, most workers receive W-2s from their employers showing their earnings for the year. In certain situations, some workers will receive multiple W-2s. While receiving multiple W-2s may result in extra work at tax time, it does not necessarily portend an increase in taxes owed. Form W-2 is a wage and tax statement that ERs have to send to the federal government to report the wages and salaries paid to their EEs. Copies must also be sent to EEs by January 31st of the year following their payment. Only workers designated as EEs receive W-2s; freelancers or independent contractors receive form 1099-MISC instead.So, if you , as a sole proprietor, do cleaning , etc or as a SMLLC, then you MUST file Sch C of 1040 /Sch SE of 1040 and need to pay SECA tax, soc sec tax for self employer and you do NOT need a W2.
“ and is the only place i report income is in the other income catagory? even though it says enter household income under $1700.?”----->As said above, your ER needs to issue you, a h/h EE, a W2 ONLY when he/she pays you $1,700 or more in cash wages. If you receive less than $1,700 from your ER, then you need to file Form 1040 with Schedules C and SE to report the income and pay the self-employment tax. Your ERs are not required to provide you with any documentation of the income. No W2 to you. if your ER paid you less than $1,700, neither you nor the ER owed federal taxes on those wages. So you need to file Sch C/ Sch SE and report the income on your 1040.If you do the work just for hobby, then you need to report your income on 1040 line 21. The way the tax laws treat hobbies is quite different from the way businesses are taxed. With hobbies, the general rule is that you can't take any money you spend on your hobby as a deduction. However, if you earn income from your hobby, then you're allowed to deduct hobby expenses up to your hobby income. For instance, if you made $500 from your hobby but spent $1,000 to generate that income, then you'd be allowed to deduct just $500. Furthermore, the deduction is technically a miscellaneous itemized deduction, so you must itemize to claim it. But this also means that if your total miscellaneous deductions don't exceed 2% of your adjusted gross income, you may not be eligible at all for a deduction.