Questão jurídica principal
Whether the course costs for training as a social insurance specialist are deductible as continuing-education expenses.
Decisão extraída
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.
Fundamentação extraída
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.