{"id":846,"date":"2018-08-13T02:10:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T16:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mnygroup.wpengine.com\/?p=846"},"modified":"2025-02-01T15:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T04:41:50","slug":"are-self-education-expenses-claimable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mnygroup.com.au\/en\/are-self-education-expenses-claimable\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Self-Education Expenses Claimable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be able to claim certain expenses relating to\u00a0self-education is a tax concession that is not to be\u00a0overlooked, but to be eligible <strong>your present employment\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><strong>and the course you undertake must have sufficient\u00a0connection <\/strong>for the self-education expenses to qualify as\u00a0a work-related tax deduction.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>In other words, if the course of study is deemed to be\u00a0too general in nature, and can be viewed as having\u00a0little relevance to your income-earning activities, the\u00a0connection between them (and eligibility for a tax\u00a0deduction) may not be seen to be viable by the ATO.<\/p>\n<p>Deductions are also not generally available if the subject\u00a0of self-education is designed to obtain new employment, or to open up a new income-earning activity. By way of examples of <strong>relevant connections<\/strong>, the ATO\u00a0gives the following scenarios:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>the taxpayer is upgrading their qualifications for their\u00a0current employment<\/em> \u2013 for example, upgrading from a\u00a0Bachelor qualification to a Masters<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em> they are improving specific skills or knowledge used in\u00a0their current employment<\/em> \u2013 for example, a course that\u00a0will allow them to operate more or different machinery\u00a0at their current job<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>they are employed as a trainee and are undertaking\u00a0a course that forms part of that traineeship<\/em> \u2013 for\u00a0example, an overseas trained person employed as an\u00a0 intern while completing a local bridging course<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>they can show that at the time they were working and\u00a0studying, their course led, or was likely to lead, to\u00a0an increase in employment income<\/em> \u2013 for example, a\u00a0teacher who will automatically get a pay increase as a result of completing the course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1692],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-tax","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-20"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnygroup.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnygroup.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnygroup.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnygroup.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnygroup.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mnygroup.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnygroup.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnygroup.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnygroup.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnygroup.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}