Re: Paging - How do you receive?

[Allison Dolan <adolan () MIT EDU>]

"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"