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Re: Paging - How do you receive?
From: Allison Dolan <adolan () MIT EDU>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:35:38 -0400
"Supposedly The IRS has made cell-phones some sort of taxable benefit" Actually, the IRS has always been able to tax 'perks' that they feel are insufficiently work related (e.g. country club memberships, etc.). Over the past several years, they've looked more closely at cell phone. Given the number of flat rate plans and negotiated contracts, it has been harder to distinguish 'business' from 'personal'. Some places decided to give employees a flat amount per month (e.g. $20) to cover the 'business' use of the cell. Allison F. Dolan Program Director, Protecting Personally Identifiable Information MIT (617) 252-1461 On Jul 7, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Megan Carney <carn0048 () umn edu> wrote:We use pagers so we our cellphones can remain mostly personal. . .the University no longer reimburses most people for any portion of their cellphone bill.We may be moving to a similar situation. Supposedly The IRS has made cell-phones some sort of taxable benefit so cellphones which are supplied by an employer have to be itemized if they are not strictly controlled.Also, it's lets us have 'groups'. We each have an individual pager number which is kept internally and one number which will page them all and is given out for emergencies while on call.-- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
Current thread:
- Paging - How do you receive? Jenkins, Matthew (Jul 03)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Paging - How do you receive? Greg Schaffer (Jul 04)
- Re: Paging - How do you receive? Gary Flynn (Jul 07)
- Re: Paging - How do you receive? Cal Frye (Jul 07)
- Re: Paging - How do you receive? Don Westlight (Jul 07)
- Re: Paging - How do you receive? Megan Carney (Jul 07)
- Re: Paging - How do you receive? Stephen John Smoogen (Jul 07)
- Re: Paging - How do you receive? Mike Iglesias (Jul 07)
- Re: Paging - How do you receive? Allison Dolan (Jul 07)
- Re: Paging - How do you receive? Robert Kalal (Jul 07)
- Re: Paging - How do you receive? Barbara Torney (Jul 07)
- Re: Paging - How do you receive? Jenkins, Matthew (Jul 07)