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Modernize Our Bookkeeping In the Law for Employee's Cell Phone Act of 2008
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to remove cell phones from listed property under section 280F.
Other Bill Titles (2 more) 2/14/2008--Introduced.
Modernize Our Bookkeeping In the Law for Employee's Cell Phone Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to remove certain limitations on the tax deduction for employee use of cellular telephones.
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| February 14, 2008 |
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July 28, 2008 Cellphones no longer a luxury
HR. 5450 was introduced earlier this year by Rep. Sam Johnson to repeal this rule. Small business accountants applauded this temporary burst of Congressional sanity. Alas, such sanity was only temporary. Not surprisingly for this ...
Source: Open IT Strategies
May 21, 2008 Employer provided cell phone
http://www.nacubo.org/x10109.xml Congress has introduced bills (HR 5450 and S. 2668) to loosen the rules that tax personal use of employer provided cell phones and require detailed records to be kept on business usage. See link above.
Source: guywong.com
April 09, 2008 Bill in Congress Would Ease Cellphone Restrictions for Colleges
A bill introduced in February, HR 5450, would eliminate those restrictions, allowing colleges and other employers to provide their workers with cellphones, Treos, or Blackberries without maintaining detailed use records or generating ...
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am in favor of the removal of cellular telephone from listed property. Taxing employees for use of an employer provided cell phone is stupid. How are employers to determine the value of a multiple phone contract that is on a pooled minute system? My employer requires certain employees to have a employer provided phone, and then withholds income tax from the employee paycheck. The value my employer is using is $40 per month taxable benefit. This doesn't make sense as to add my husband to my personal account cost us $10 per month. My husband was able to reject his employer provided phone. I am glad that my job classification does not require me to have a phone, as my employer would not allow me to use my personal phone in place of theirs. This bill would remove cellalar phones as listed property a taxable benefit to employees.
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