Key legal question
Whether the taxpayer may deduct retraining costs as professional expenses.
Extracted holding
No. Retraining costs are deductible only if external circumstances make continuation of the former profession impossible; that proof was not shown here.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the move from IT to primary teaching was not mere continuing education but a second training. The taxpayer did not prove that external, non-personal circumstances excluded further work in the original profession. Three rejection letters were insufficient, and RAV registration was not a legal condition.