Question juridique clé
Whether the costs of studying law qualify as deductible retraining costs for direct federal tax.
Solution extraite
No. The law studies were a second education, not retraining caused by objective external circumstances.
Motifs extraits
Retraining costs are deductible only when the taxpayer must retrain because of external reasons linked to the current profession, such as illness, accident, closure, or extinction of a trade. No such objective necessity was shown here.