Tax relief on Union fees

badmedic wrote: »

Unison can but the POA can't I don't get it I really don't you don't have to be a member of either union for your work but one is on the list and one isn't.

try reading the list properly, relief is available where it is for a learned body not because it's for a union

Unison is ONLY allowable for health care sector workers because "The activities of a body are directly relevant to an employment where the performance of the duties of that employment is directly affected by the knowledge concerned"

a dustman who is a member of Unison cannot get relief because their membership of Unison does not result in them getting extra knowledge from Unison, they only get employee rights support not learned support. In contrast Unison does act as a source of knowledge for healthcare workers.

the POA is simply a "union" concerned with workers rights, it does not undertake any learned body activity so is not on the list.

Other who are on the list have only part of the subscription allowed because there is a distinction made between employee rights support (union activity) and conveyance of technical knowledge (learned body activity) eg: only 67% of the University College Association (UCA) sub is allowed as the rest is "union" related so not allowed

simples