1099 Brokers: do you write off any of your cell phone on taxes?
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[{"id": "f3ft2ws", "text": "I write off all of my cell phone and you can definitely right off your home office. You can even right off a portion of utilities. What ever the percentage of space that your home office occupies you can write off that portion of your utilities.", "replies": [{"id": "f3ftfpw", "text": "This is the same answer my accountant said, but my account is more conservative so I think we are writing off 70% of the bill for business since I only have one phone. The remainder is personal.", "replies": [{"id": "f3ftubv", "text": "I spoke briefly last tax year to my accountant and I asked him if I could write off my cell bill and he was kind of a prick he said \u201cwell how much of your phone do you use for fun and how much for work, if you had two phones it would be easier because you would be writing off 100% of the work phone\u201d.", "replies": [{"id": "f3fx1o8", "text": "Yeah same", "replies": [], "depth": 4}, {"id": "f3iowi4", "text": "Get a prepaid $10/m phone for personal use. Use your smart phone for work. Problem solved.", "replies": [], "depth": 4}, {"id": "f3iubs3", "text": "In all likelihood you will be fine to deduct 100% of the phone bill. In the rare scenario you are subject to an audit (IRS has bigger fish to fry), it would be difficult to prove the exact % you should've deducted. To add, your phone bill deduction is likely immaterial compared to your business revenue (5% of gross revenue is used as a standard).\n\n If you're itemizing returns, you should also be deducting an office expense. Setup a room/corner in you house as an \"office\" and write off rent proportionally to sq/ft. I'm an accountant myself so if you have any questions feel free to ask.\n\nThat being said, go with what your accountant says to do. He/she knows your situation better than anyone else.", "replies": [], "depth": 4}, {"id": "f3se7ts", "text": "Get a different accountant. I liked my old guy, but he was a dick about playing by the rules. My new guy? We put nothing in writing, I don't even email him documents - I put them into a dropbox folder that we share and we get on the phone to talk through how best to present my info. We talk about what can be done and what level of risk it entails, and then we move forward with it.", "replies": [], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "f3fvrsi", "text": "If your home office is your main plant of work, and used ecl for work, then yes. You can deduct. Only working a few days a week from home makes it sounds like you have a different primary location? If so, the home office is not deductible.\n\nYes, you can deduct the portion of your phone used for work. Generally based on day/time percentage.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]