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Can I deduct my entire year's cell phone bill, or can I only do that from the time I started self-employment?

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February 18, 2022
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TurboTax Self Employed Online

You can only deduct the expenses which were incurred while doing business. So in your case, you can only deduct the phone bill when you started self-employment. However, even after you started self-employment you can only deduct the portion of cell phone bill which was used for business purposes. For example, if you used your cell phone for 40% for business purposes and 60% for personal purpose, then you can only deduct 40% of your phone bill as a business expense and the rest 60% cannot be deducted since its a personal expense.