Should I be taxed on course fees taken from salary

FTB83

Hi - I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I wonder if anyone could help me with the following:

I am currently studying a year-long course which cost £2,000 - my employer agreed to pay £1,500 of this and I am paying the other £500 myself. So they paid the course fees in full, and I have been paying them £35 per month taken straight from my monthly salary since May of last year, finishing this July or August I think. The thing is, this £35 is coming out of my pay packet after tax. I've just done a salary calculator (following our inflation payrise), and there's an option to input 'loan from company' - I've put in what I owe and it's calculations for my final salary have taken the £35 per month out before I pay tax.

Can anyone shed some light on this? Is what I'm paying technically a 'loan' from the company? It is just detailed on my payslip as 'course fees'.

Thanks,

FTb83

Astaroth

I believe it depends on the course.... in a similar vein I have subscription to 2 professional bodies but one of them is taxable and the other isnt... dont know the criteria on which it is decided if it is taxable or not.

FTB83

Thanks Astaroth - I might just query this with work. Unfortunately, they're not the most helpful in terms of looking into things...worth a try though.

FTB83

shameless-about-money

Any courses which you undertake as part of ongoing training is tax allowable and should be claimed as such through your tax return.

Do phone your local tax office and query this with them.