Can you reclaim the VAT and/or tax on training costs?

[mongoose237]

Thank you Whirls.

So it is possible, for example, for someone to continue their day job and be a freelance pilot on the weekends, and be registered as a sole trader purely for the purposes of their flying? My confusion arose because I thought that by registering as a sole trader whatever services you provide you have to charge VAT on them.

Or the more common scenario of maintaining current employment whilst training, but still wanting to reclaim the VAT on the flying which will stretch beyond the 6 months (I understand there is a little bit of discretion here)