Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the wife's postgraduate studies in interkultural communication were deductible continuing education or nondeductible training costs.
Extrahierter Entscheid
The study costs were not deductible, because they served to acquire a new foundational qualification rather than to keep up with or meet the demands of an already exercised profession.
Extrahierte Begründung
Deductible continuing education must relate to the established and actually exercised profession; the decisive criterion is the objective purpose of the expense, not whether certificates call it further education or training. Here, the course did not sufficiently relate to the wife's main professional activity or her learned profession.