Key legal question
Whether the postgraduate study costs were deductible as business/continuing-education expenses rather than non-deductible education or career-advancement costs.
Extracted holding
For this taxpayer, the course had a sufficient connection to his long-standing journalistic profession and qualified as deductible continuing-education costs.
Extracted reasoning
After more than 20 years in journalism, the general philosophical and economic training could deepen his understanding of cultural and social phenomena relevant to his work; the court treated the case as a special one and found no mere personal enrichment or new qualification aimed at a distinct higher profession.