Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the taxpayer may deduct retraining costs as professional expenses.
Extrahierter Entscheid
No. Retraining costs are deductible only if external circumstances make continuation of the former profession impossible; that proof was not shown here.
Extrahierte Begründung
The court held that the move from IT to primary teaching was not mere continuing education but a second training. The taxpayer did not prove that external, non-personal circumstances excluded further work in the original profession. Three rejection letters were insufficient, and RAV registration was not a legal condition.