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Taxing of Professional fees - how to claim back

  • 09-10-2011 1:03pm
    #1
    miss_black_belt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭


    Hi All,

    Just wondering if anyone's employers taxed them on their ACA/ACCA fees?

    I work as an accountant in industry and they still maintained it was not ABSOLUTELY necessary for me to be a qualified accountant and therefore I was taxed on my fees. Even the Financial Controller was taxed on hers:eek:!

    I am wondering if I am entitled to claim the tax back on the fees? Also, how would I go about doing this?

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    nompere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭nompere


    Have you read the e-brief issued by Revenue?

    http://www.revenue.ie/en/practitioner/ebrief/2011/no-192011.html

    Presumably your employer has paid the fees in the first place, and then charged you to tax etc on the benefit in kind? That's in paragraph 3 of the e-brief.

    It seems to me that if your employer has taken that view then you have no prospect of making a claim from Revenue. How can you argue with Revenue that you need this qualification when your employer has said you don't?

    You have a pretty wretched employer, I'm sorry to say.


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