Circular No. 268 – Income Tax The rates of income-tax and surcharge for the assessment year 1980-81 in the case of all categories of taxpayers (corporate as well as non-corporate) will be the same as were specified in Part III of the First Schedule to the Finance Act, 1979 for the purpose of calculating or charging income-tax in certain cases, deducting income-tax from income chargeable under the head “Salaries