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HMRC Accepts Defeat over the Rise of the Smartphone and Tax Refunds May be Due

Lee Sharpe, TaxationWeb

February 22, 2012

HM Revenue & Customs has announced that it now accepts that smartphones 'count' as ordinary mobile telephones, for the purposes of employment taxes and benefits in kind. Whilst the huge growth in smartphone sales in today's market makes such distinctions seem meaningless, HMRC is effectively saying that they now accept smartphones were always eligible as normal mobile phones for tax purposes.

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