I am an IT consultant and I do have a stammer. I take 1 or 2 speech training courses (e.g. telephone skills for people who stammer, etc) per year to help me provide a better consultancy.
Is it OK to expense the cost of these training courses?
Is there any HMRC helpline that I can contact and ask them?
I spoke with my accountant and he said it's unlikely that HMRC will allow expensing speech therapy courses because you will also personally benefit and expenses should be wholly and exclusively for business only.
What my accountant said is a pure discrimination by HMRC if it is correct, isn't it? You can't expense a training course that you need to improve your work because you have a stammer!
This doesn't make sense to me with regard to training courses as anyone who takes any training course will also benefit personally and indeed all training courses have the element of being personal otherwise that person wouldn't have taken that course!
Please share your thoughts.
Is it OK to expense the cost of these training courses?
Is there any HMRC helpline that I can contact and ask them?
I spoke with my accountant and he said it's unlikely that HMRC will allow expensing speech therapy courses because you will also personally benefit and expenses should be wholly and exclusively for business only.
What my accountant said is a pure discrimination by HMRC if it is correct, isn't it? You can't expense a training course that you need to improve your work because you have a stammer!
This doesn't make sense to me with regard to training courses as anyone who takes any training course will also benefit personally and indeed all training courses have the element of being personal otherwise that person wouldn't have taken that course!
Please share your thoughts.
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