Buying a mobile phone using company funds

[Slumdog]

I am looking at upgrading my personal mobile phone and have narrowed it down to few (not iphone).

Can I purchase the phone outright (no contract) as a business expense?

Current winner is HTC Desire unless anyone has other recommendations for around the same price (300-370).

[gingerjedi]

I am looking at upgrading my personal mobile phone and have narrowed it down to few (not iphone).

Can I purchase the phone outright (no contract) as a business expense?

Current winner is HTC Desire unless anyone has other recommendations for around the same price (300-370).

Won't it belong to the business therefore not personal?

I've never bothered putting my phone through the business as it's a small expense that I'd pay personally anyway.

Thumbs up for the Desire though, had mine for a few months now and it still surprises me with it's seemingly endless functionality, liking Google Sky Map on these starry nights.

[Fred Bloggs]

Yes you can. I bought a Galaxy S recently.

[the_rangdo]

Won't it belong to the business therefore not personal?

I've never bothered putting my phone through the business as it's a small expense that I'd pay personally anyway.

Thumbs up for the Desire though, had mine for a few months now and it still surprises me with it's seemingly endless functionality, liking Google Sky Map on these starry nights.

+1 on the Desire, only real downside is the small internal memory and a mail app that can chew that memory up over time.

[Platypus]

Can I purchase the phone outright (no contract) as a business expense?

Yes you can. I've just bought a Nexus One, sim free, outright.

[SueEllen]

Can I purchase the phone outright (no contract) as a business expense?
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Off course you can especially if you are involved in development. Even if you are not it's a smartphone, and you are allowed a smartphone and a mobile phone under HMRC rules.

[BoredBloke]

I thought they didn't see smartphones as being mobile phones anymore.

[amcdonald]

I thought they didn't see smartphones as being mobile phones anymore.

You could always use one to develop Apps then it's an IT business purchase

[Support Monkey]

I am looking at upgrading my personal mobile phone and have narrowed it down to few (not iphone).

Can I purchase the phone outright (no contract) as a business expense?

Current winner is HTC Desire unless anyone has other recommendations for around the same price (300-370).

Yes you can.

Take a look at the Dell streak there flippin amazing even if they are slightly large

[Platypus]

I thought they didn't see smartphones as being mobile phones anymore.

There is no benefit in kind on smart phones. There was a thread in Accounting which covered this recently. HMRC have changed their earlier advice that they didn't consider them 'just' phones.