Circular : No. 574-Income Tax 1. Section 80C of the Income-tax Act allows, inter alia, deductions while computing the total income of an assessee of any sums paid in the previous year by the assessee individual out of his income chargeable to tax, to effect or to keep in force an insurance on the life of the assessee or on the life of the wife, or husband, or any child of the assessee. Representations have been received by the
