11th August 2013, 01:20 PM
I don't work for HMRC so couldn't say how they interpret a situation such as Wax describes. I have checked a couple of websites (including MumsNet!!) about offsetting the cost of training against tax and there seems to be contradictory opinion and apparently advice given out by the tax people....I think you take your chances and hope it slips through. As I said once it has been initially recognised any subsequent renewal ought to be tax-efficient...
Interesting question as to whether CSCS is a legitimate 'professional' qualification. Before the card came in I attended 3 or 4 H&S courses at different CFE all of which awarded me certificates having sat through the mandatory lectures and test. I didn't/wouldn't count those as professional qualifications, more as 'vocational'.....same as my chain saw, hilti-gun, first aid certificates. You can offset CPD costs against tax, but not as far as I am aware vocational training (unless as I said earlier, it is to upgrade vocational skills already attested).....the clear majority opinion on this forum seems to be that nearly all worthwhile vocational training in 'professional' archaelogy actually happens in what the IfA would describe as a CPD situation...strange then that the taxman seems to take a different view as to what constitutes vocational and professional development....
Interesting question as to whether CSCS is a legitimate 'professional' qualification. Before the card came in I attended 3 or 4 H&S courses at different CFE all of which awarded me certificates having sat through the mandatory lectures and test. I didn't/wouldn't count those as professional qualifications, more as 'vocational'.....same as my chain saw, hilti-gun, first aid certificates. You can offset CPD costs against tax, but not as far as I am aware vocational training (unless as I said earlier, it is to upgrade vocational skills already attested).....the clear majority opinion on this forum seems to be that nearly all worthwhile vocational training in 'professional' archaelogy actually happens in what the IfA would describe as a CPD situation...strange then that the taxman seems to take a different view as to what constitutes vocational and professional development....
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