{"id":815,"date":"2012-07-27T12:04:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T17:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=815"},"modified":"2012-07-27T12:04:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T17:04:50","slug":"employer-provided-cell-phones-are-tax-free-fringes-the-service-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Employer-provided cell phones are tax free fringes, the Service says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As long as companies give the phones to workers primarily for business reasons, employees won&#8217;t be taxed on either the business or personal use of the phones. Thus, workers will not need to keep a log of their business and personal calls.<\/p>\n<p>Ditto where employers reimburse for the business use of personal phones. The payments aren&#8217;t taxed to employees if the use of the phone is reasonably related to the firm&#8217;s business needs and the amounts paid are not unusual or excessive.<\/p>\n<p>These same rules apply to iPads and other tablets, according to IRS officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as companies give the phones to workers primarily for business reasons, employees won&#8217;t be taxed on either the business or personal use of the phones. Thus, workers will not need to keep a log of their business and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=815\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[128,130,16,129,131],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-business-phone","tag-ipad","tag-irs","tag-personal-phone","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}