After section 76ZC insert—

“76ZDRetraining courses

(1)

This section applies if—

(a)

a company carrying on life assurance business (“the employer”) incurs training course expenses,

(b)

they are incurred in relation to a person (“the employee”) who holds or has held an office or employment under the employer, and

(c)

the relevant conditions are met.

(2)

The expenses are brought into account under section 76 as expenses payable (so far as they otherwise would not be).

(3)

In this section—

“retraining course expenses” means expenses incurred in the payment or reimbursement of retraining course expenses within the meaning given by section 311(2) of ITEPA 2003, and

“the relevant conditions” means—

(a)

the conditions in subsections (3) and (4) of section 311 of ITEPA 2003 (employment income exemptions: retraining courses), and

(b)

in the case of travel expenses, the conditions in subsection (5) of that section.”