{"id":397,"date":"2017-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxbakv2.wpengine.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/05\/claiming-back-professional-subscriptions\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T00:00:00","slug":"claiming-back-professional-subscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/09\/05\/claiming-back-professional-subscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Claiming back professional subscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your employment requires that you obtain and maintain membership of a professional organisation, you can make a claim to set the cost against your taxable earnings for income tax purposes. As you would expect there are a few hoops you will need to jump through to claim this relief. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You must have the professional membership to do your job or if membership helps you with your work.<\/li>\n<li>You can only claim back subscriptions to organisations approved by HMRC.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot claim back fees for life membership subscriptions.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot claim subscriptions you have not paid yourself, for example, your employer has paid them for you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To see the full list of professional organisations and other learned societies that are approved by the tax office visit this page on the GOV.UK website:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/professional-bodies-approved-for-tax-relief-list-3\/approved-professional-organisations-and-learned-societies\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/professional-bodies-approved-for-tax-relief-list-3\/approved-professional-organisations-and-learned-societies<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your employment requires that you obtain and maintain membership of a professional organisation, you can make a claim to set the cost against your taxable earnings for income tax purposes. As you would expect there are a few hoops you will need to jump through to claim this relief. They are: You must have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","blog-left-layout","blog-style-postblock","","blog-alt-odd"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/taxbak.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}