Key legal question
Whether the course costs for training as a social insurance specialist are deductible as continuing-education expenses.
Extracted holding
Yes. For a taxpayer with long professional experience in a similar field, the course is sufficiently connected to the current profession and serves to maintain and secure professional standing.
Extracted reasoning
The court distinguished non-deductible initial training from deductible continuing education. The taxpayer had worked for years in claims handling, the course improved skills relevant to that job, and the qualification was valued on the labor market but did not amount to a fundamentally new profession.