Comments on: Bring Your Own Device legal exposure

By: Roger Bournival

Roger Bournival — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 15:42:27 +0000

Also – $70 / month likely fits the definition of ‘de minimus’ fringe benefits, which are not subject to tax.

By: mx

mx — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 07:10:50 +0000

While you do get credit for takcing the term “vendor” on at the end, let’s be real here. This article is an ad written by the VP of Marketing for a company that offers a solution to a problem to a problem you never knew you had until you read it. Are there any actual examples where the IRS has had a problem with reasonable standard reimbursements for personal communications expenses when those amounts are paid to employees with some reasonable need to use such devices as part of their jobs?

By: Mr. Allen

Mr. Allen — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 04:56:31 +0000

Add-ons are a subset of designations. It would be easier to designate particular use for accounting. The smartphone user would have to designate each piece of use themselves, and submit that, which would supply a detailed report to the employer. Each snap, tweet, text, picture, phone call, etc., would be eligible to be categorized other than default.

Easy tools to do this would heuristic suggestions based on time of day, company name in contacts, etc., and guide the phone user through simple selection methods.

Computers today are still too stilted; if they had the capabilities of meeting the needs of their users naturally, they would already have this capability. As it is, accounting for this is nontrivial, as you point out. I assume computers will get this natural ability within half a century. It could be here today.