Cellular phone for business ?

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Q. I wonder if you can deduct a cell-phone bought just for business travel as a business expense? I was once told by my accountant that if I had another phone installed (I have two now) that only one could be used as a business expense. (I thought maybe one for the internet was a business expense since I use the internet mostly for business purposes and another phone for just business calls and then my own private phone for everyone to use would, of course, not be a business expense.

A. Well, since she said I could only have one home business phone and I really felt that I did need a cellular phone for travel that maybe in this case it would be more considered a business (travel) phone and it would be different as a deduction!! Does anyone else do both as a deduction or know if this can be used as a deduction along with your business phone when you have your office at home? I will, of course, talk to my accountant about it, but I am not so sure I trust her judgment on the fact that even if I use two phones for business (one for the internet for business and one for business calls) that I can only deduct one. I would think since the cell phone is used outside of my home, but for business purposes that it would then be deductible along with the home based business phone. I think she is wrong. You cannot deduct a single home phone as a business expense (except you can deduct any long distance charges that are made for business). If you have business lines in your home, I would think there is no limit on how many you deduct. I have two business lines (and these are not just extra resdential phone service). I have a pager I deduct. I do not deduct my cell phone because it is not really for business. It I used it mainly for business I would deduct it. We have a cable online service which allows both of us to access at same time and I deduct half of it as business. I rarely use it for anything other than business. I do also have a personal laptop I use on line. However, we do not note that we are deducting half to keep it simple. I use the internet for research for work, networking, writing an MT newsletter article for which I get paid. I don't understand why she would think you can only deduct one business line? That is ridiculous. Some services would need multiple phone lines for incoming dictation, etc.

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