IRS seeks repeal of work cell-phone tax - Dayton Business Journal:

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The agency created an uproar when it proposerd ways to simplify compliance with currenttax law, whicgh treats personal use of work-supplied cell phones as personal That law is “burdensome, poorly understood by taxpayeres and difficult for the IRS to administerd consistently,” IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said in a To simplify compliance, the IRS sought comment on several options, includee treating 25 percent of the cell phone’z use as personal use. That created an uproar, and some reporte “incorrectly implied that the IRSis ‘cracking down’ on employeee use of employer-provided cell phones,” Shulmab said.
In response, the IRS and the have askedx Congress “to make clear that there will be no tax consequencd to employers or employees for personalp useof work-related devices such as cell phonea provided by employers,” Shulman said. “Thwe passage of time, advancee in technology and the nature of communicationxs in the modern workplace have rendereed thislaw obsolete,” he said. The House passedc legislation last year to repeal the cellphond tax, but it failed to pass the