IRS seeks repeal of work cell-phone tax - The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area:

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The agency created an uproar when it proposed ways to simplify complianc with currenttax law, which treats personal use of work-supplierd cell phones as personal income. That law is poorly understood by taxpayers and difficult for the IRS toadministerf consistently,” IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said in a To simplify compliance, the IRS sought comment on several included treating 25 percent of the cell phone’s use as personalk use. That created an and some reports “incorrectly implied that the IRSis ‘crackinyg down’ on employee use of employer-provided cell Shulman said.
In response, the IRS and the have asked Congresws “to make clear that there will be no tax consequenc to employers or employees for personal useof work-related devicees such as cell phones provided by employers,” Shulmamn said. “The passage of time, advances in technology and the naturre of communications in the modern workplacde have rendered thislaw obsolete,” he The House passed legislation last year to repea l the cell phone tax, but it failed to pass the