wheelsup said:No mention of cell phone usage on the US Governemnt site. IMO, you can DEDUCT your cell phone bill (or percentage of it) off of your taxes as a business expense if you want to. I'm not so sure how the IRS would look at it if you deducted the whole thing, but for sure that $20 call to dispatch in CA would qualify. I'm deducting the $1.45 call I made to the hotel in Toronto for a pick up....
If you use 200 minutes/month calling the company, and you have a 400 minute plan, simply deduct half the monthly cost of your cell bill.
Good luck with that. If I were the IRS I'd tell you to go screw yourself. That phone call to the hotel was not required to be from your cellphone, you CHOSE to do that so you could save $1.45 in taxes. Those 200 minutes were not REQUIRED to be from your cellphone. Had you not made them, you still would have paid for them, but this way you get to deduct them from your taxes. FRAUD!