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Yes, if you are self-employed and you use your cell phone for business, you can claim the business use of your phone as a tax deduction.
Employee Use: You can also deduct the business use of a cell phone if you are an employee rather than a business owner.You will only qualify, however, if your employer requires you to maintain a cell phone for business use. Calls you make after normal business hours do not count toward this deduction.
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Yes, if you are self-employed and you use your cell phone for business, you can claim the business use of your phone as a tax deduction.
Employee Use: You can also deduct the business use of a cell phone if you are an employee rather than a business owner.You will only qualify, however, if your employer requires you to maintain a cell phone for business use. Calls you make after normal business hours do not count toward this deduction.
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Your share would be a communications expense, and there's a category for that in TurboTax. In the Business Expesnes >> Other Common Business Expenses section there's one specifically called "Communications". That's where you enter the business portion of your cell phone costs for the tax year.
Here is a Turbo Tax blog on cell phones
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