To enter information for Schedule B, use Form 1099-INT/1099-OID (for interest and original issue discount) and Form 1099-DIV for dividends.
Information carries from those forms to the Interest Income Summary and the Dividend Income Summary, and from there to Schedule B.
The last seven lines of the Interest Income section are reserved for the following special texts, any or all of which are displayed if they apply:
Tax-Exempt Interest
Nominee Distribution
Accrued Interest
OID Adjustment
ABP
Savings Bond Adjustment
Other Adjustment
If any of the special cases applies, we calculate a subtotal of all the interest items before adjustment, and place that subtotal on the eighth line from the bottom. SUBTOTAL will appear in the payer column. The special cases adjustments are reflected on line 2.
If you have seven or fewer interest items on your Interest Income Summary, then we carry all the interest items to Schedule B. Otherwise, we carry the total only (leaving the remaining lines in the interest section for the subtotal and special cases, if needed), and enter "See attached worksheet for detail." In this case, you should file the Interest Income Summary with your tax return.
As is the case with interest income, we carry the total (and not the individual line items) from the Dividend Income Summary if there are more than seventeen items on the Dividend Income Summary.
We reserve the second to last line of the Dividends section of Schedule B for the text NOMINEE DISTRIBUTION (and accompanying amount). If you X'd the nominee dividend box on a 1099-DIV for any of your dividends, then these words and the amount will appear on line 5 of the Dividends chart. SUBTOTAL will appear on the line above, with the subtotal of your dividend items before adjustment.
The nominee amount will then be subtracted from the subtotal to give the amount on which you should be taxed.
We perform a similar calculation for restricted stock dividends, the total of which appears on the last line of the Dividends section.