UK Doctors should be able to offset medical education expenses against their tax bill
In order to revalidate doctors registered with the GMC will have to
fulfill the minimum requirements for Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) of their respective Royal Colleges. The requirements for re-
certification may be more onerous.
Currently the Inland Revenue do not allow doctors who are not self
employed to easily offset CPD expenses against their tax bill.
The drug industry is said to fund about half of all postgraduate
medical education. It is inevitable that if this proportion falls that
individual doctors will have a pay a greater share of their necessary CPD
expenses.
Government should agree that such expenses are fully tax deductible
for all medical practitioners.
Rapid Response:
UK Doctors should be able to offset medical education expenses against their tax bill
In order to revalidate doctors registered with the GMC will have to
fulfill the minimum requirements for Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) of their respective Royal Colleges. The requirements for re-
certification may be more onerous.
Currently the Inland Revenue do not allow doctors who are not self
employed to easily offset CPD expenses against their tax bill.
The drug industry is said to fund about half of all postgraduate
medical education. It is inevitable that if this proportion falls that
individual doctors will have a pay a greater share of their necessary CPD
expenses.
Government should agree that such expenses are fully tax deductible
for all medical practitioners.
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