Interesting tax thought

[TelBoy]

We all know that our great HMRC will not give tax allowances against initial training, but consider the following.You already have a CPL and FI and are a self employed instructor.If you then took multi training and Instrument rating to allow you to instruct ME and IR surley this would be a business expense and tax deductable?Any thoughts greatfully received.

[duveldrinker]

under belgian tax law: yes.

[Mickey Kaye]

What about cost involved in renewing a CPL and FI rating. check rides and seminar. Would i be correct in thinking that these are a business expense?

[foxmoth]

As a self employed instructor I think you would be OK as long as you then offset these costs against earnings from this type of instructing, you can show this as a loss in your accounts for this area and would be able to put this loss against your overall profit, but if you did not show you had used the ratings once gained you could be on shaky ground. Please note though, I am not a tax accountant so this is only an opinion from someone in the business.:8

[hugh flung_dung]

The bottom line of a complicated set of rules seems to be that you can get credit for the cost of maintaining necessary skills and qualifications but not for gaining them in the first place. So, all renewals/revals are allowable but the initial courses are not.

This is from advice I got 12 years ago from Mrs HFD (an Accountant)

HFD