How to file ITR if the Income Tax website is not showing salaries from two employers

If you changed jobs within the previous financial year (2024-25) and the Income Tax website is not reflecting your salary information for both jobs, you need to fill in the details manually.

Salaried individuals get Form 16 from their employers, which is a TDS certificate depicting the total amount of salary paid to the employee and the tax deducted at source on the salary. If you changed jobs, you must have received two Form 16s.

At times, more than one Form 16 leads to confusion and complications, as some details might be missing. Further, some tax exemptions or deductions may have been calculated more than once.

Sometimes, one employer may not have filed the TDS return yet, so the IT portal doesn’t show the salary details for that job. However, you are still legally required to declare all income.

If you changed jobs and the IT portal has missing details, here is how you can do it manually:

• Download Form 16 from both employers, and keep Form 26AS and AIS/TIS handy while filing the ITR to cross-check reported income and TDS.

• Choose the correct ITR form.

• In the ‘Income Details’ section, you have to enter salary details from both of your employers. Add up the salary income from both jobs by checking Form 16.

• In the TDS section, enter the TDS deducted by both employers as per Form 16.

• If both employers have given you deductions like HRA, standard deduction, etc., you need to calculate correctly, as you can claim them only once.

• File ITR with accurately calculated income and TDS.