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okay yeah thank you so much susan i will send over the invoice in about an hour or two thank you so much for taking the time out to talk with me today okay bye oh hey y'all listen i already know what you're thinking and the answer is yes if you use your cell phone for work purposes it is a write-off [Music] what is up everybody my name is tyra and welcome back to keeper tax your one-stop shop for all things 1099 taxes here on this channel we create resources for freelancers independent contractors gig workers and anyone else who files or should be filing business taxes in this day and age cell phones are an essential part of daily work especially if you're a freelancer we check emails use our digital calendar call clients send invoices and a lot more but the crazy thing is we sometimes forget to deduct our cell phone bill on our taxes this happens because freelancers tend to use their phones for business and personal purposes and of course that's all bundled together into one monthly bill so we don't physically see the business expense but no worries today i'm going to show you how to get around that problem and write off your cell phone bill as a work expense the most important thing i want you guys to know is that your phone bill is partially tax deductible you can only deduct the business use percentage which we have talked about a few times on the channel but if you are new here the business use percentage is basically a ratio of the amount of time you spend using something for work or business purposes versus personal needs so that means that if you use your phone for work percent of the time you'd be able to write off sixty percent of your phone bill so if your monthly phone bill was one hundred dollars sixty dollars of it would be tax deductible this also applies to landlines as well if you have a dedicated landline phone that you strictly use for business in your home office that would be 100 tax deductible if you're claiming a home office now i have an entire video on home office deductions on the channel so if you haven't seen that one but you are planning on claiming a home office please please please go check that out i linked it down below now let's say you don't have a landline and you don't want to use your personal phone you can also purchase a separate phone and cell phone plan for business use only and if you guys did that it would be 100 tax deductible but i don't really recommend that for most freelancers and independent contractors because it's a lot of hassle when you could just use the phone you already have so how did we find that business use percentage all you have to do is a simple...