What exactly is Schedule TDS 2?

Schedule TDS 2 is the section in your Income Tax Return where you report TDS deducted on income other than salary

The Income Tax Department has collapsed and auto merged what used to be “Schedule TDS 2” into the Tax Paid section of the ITR, thanks to full pre-filling of ITR form from AIS/26AS.

Why Schedule TDS 2 is not visible anymore?

Prefilled ITR now auto imports all TDS entries

Banks, companies, and payers upload TDS to the department. The ITR utility now auto maps:

• TDS on salary → Salary schedule
• TDS on other income → Other Sources
• All TDS credits → Tax Paid section

So, the need for a separate TDS 2 table has reduced.

Schedule TDS 2 was a major source of TDS mismatch errors when filed incorrectly by taxpayers or their taxation representatives (e.g., CAs).

This source of mismatch is now invisible, thanks to the auto-filled ITR form and refined workflows for updating 26AS/AIS and other forms/statements. This has been a great initiative of the IT (Income Tax) department.

The new ITR design hides internal schedules

The backend still might conceptually be using schedule TDS 1 and TDS 2, but the UI shows only a unified “TDS/TCS Details” block.

To prevent user errors

Earlier, taxpayers would:

• Claim TDS without reporting income
• Enter duplicate TDS rows
• Mis-map TDS to wrong income heads

The new design forces consistency.

What this means for you as a taxpayer?

• You no longer need to manually fill Schedule TDS 2 unless something is missing in the prefilled data.
• You only verify
  • TAN
  • Amount paid/credited
  • TDS amount
  • Income head mapping
• If something is missing

  You add it in the Tax Paid TDS section, not in a separate TDS 2 schedule.