<google.20.r1424[at]spamgourmet.com> wrote

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If you are a W-2 employee, and if those expenses were to be
allowed as a deduction, they would flow to Form 2106 and
then Schedule A, subject to a 2% of AGI haircut, which I
doubt leaves anything left to deduct at all. Now, you need
to factor the personal use of both those toys and only claim
the actual business percentage/use as an expense first. I
doubt there will be much to actually deduct, even after
phaseout limits on itemized deductions.

Now, both would have to be work related, which can mean that
the employer required or expected you to have both the
computer/internet access and the cell phone to conduct your
buisness of being an employee of the hospital and that to do
your job properly you needed the cell phone and the
internet. I would have expected the hospital to provide you
with such tools so that you could conduct your job in a
proper manner.

The hospital I have ties with does not allow their employees
to have cell phones at work, and thier patient records are
not accessable from off-site computers for obvious security
reasons.

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Paul Thomas, CPA
paulthomascpapc[at]bellsouth.net

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As a hospital employed physician are your monthly cell phone
expenses and/or high-speed internet fees deductible?

I briefly checked Pub's 17+529, and it does not look like
it. However, objectively, the cell phone is necessary to
respond to calls in a timely manner, and the internet
connection is used to access patient records from home.

I'd appreciate your feedback,

Thanks,

Mike.

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