Are personal cell phones tax deductable if i pay taxes every month?

Question

Every month when i get my bill i pay taxes like sales taxes and i want to know if the personal cell phones are deductable.

Answer 1

No you can't but you may qualify for the Telephone Excise Tax Refund

Taxpayers have a choice: a standard refund amount between $30 and $60, based on the total number of exemptions claimed on their 2006 tax return, to eliminate the need to locate old phone bills; or they can locate those bills and use the actual amount.

Choosing the standard refund amount? You’ll find an extra line on your tax returns for the refund.
Find those old phone bills? You can figure the refund using the actual amount of tax paid. Fill out Form 8913, Credit for Federal Telephone Excise Tax Paid, and attach it to your return.
Don't need to file a return? You can still request the refund. Use the new Form 1040EZ-T, Request for Refund of Federal Telephone Excise Tax, to choose the standard amount. Attach Form 8913 to Form 1040EZ-T if you use the actual amount. Also, some companies offer free e-filing of Form 1040EZ-T.
Filing Schedule C, E or F? You may be eligible to use the special formula for businesses if you have more than $25,000 in gross receipts.

Answer 2

Most likely no. Sales tax is issued by the state. There are others that are federally regulated. Check with your local tax professional to find out if any of the taxes you have paid are deductible.

For your 2006 federal taxes you may be able to claim an excise tax credit of $30-$60 if you pay excise tax on your cell phone. (Check your Bills).

Answer 3

Sales tax on your personal cell phones are not deductible. If you were using cell phones for long distance in the past you can claim tax credit for the excise tax you paid. You can find more details at http://findtaxservice.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,29/topic,262.0/

Answer 4

Ha, ha. Lets explore that further. Since more men are employed than women (many of us are contributing at home by raising healthy families), and men typically take in a higher salary (possibly due to the time women took out of their careers or education to stay home), you could say that on a whole, men already are paying more taxes and since welfare is funded out of the taxes, men (as a whole) are paying more for the lifestyle of the welfare queen than women. Living single and on welfare is no cake walk, but I know women who have the baby daddy living in the household, contributing TO the household, and they still collect welfare. They either lie about the dad completely and collect or pretend dad doesn't live there and let a huge child support balance accrue against him. I know a guy who works under the table so that his family can collect welfare checks. He owes about 20K in child support for children that he's lived with and supported since birth. They're making welfare money plus his salary and if the state ever garnishes his wage for the child support, it will go back into his household as a child support check. As long as he doesn't get busted for the welfare fraud, all is well. Why wouldn't I turn them in? I don't know...state probably wouldn't do anything useful anyways and I would end up with the hate from it. Point being is that men also benefit from welfare, directly and indirectly. They need to stiffen the penalties for fraud, make fraudsters public (embarrass and social stigma), make collection efforts against deadbeats, and require those who are owed child support to follow up with their claims.

Answer 5

you can only use it on you tax's if it is used for business

Answer 6

only if you ues it for business