clarification on T777: Employment expenses

[rf134a]

According to publication T4044, I cannot any related claim car expenses and CCA if my employer is paying me a mileage rate.

However, if I get a fixed taxable amount on my T4, I am eligible to claim vehicle expenses and CCA.

Is this correct?

[ghostryder]

Yes. If you are getting a non-taxable allowance then you cannot expense anything.

If your allowance is taxable then you can claim expenses against it.

[Wonderdollar]

According to publication T4044, I cannot any related claim car expenses and CCA if my employer is paying me a mileage rate.

However, if I get a fixed taxable amount on my T4, I am eligible to claim vehicle expenses and CCA.

Is this correct?

Ask your employer to give you a completed and signed form T2200 'Declaration of Conditions of Employment' and based on that you can claim any expenses for which you received taxable benefits.

See this link http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pbg/tf/t2200/t2200-08e.pdf

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[videonerd]

Can someone clarify the T777 for salaried workers. It says "supplies," that I cannot deduct the cost of Internet service, but I can deduct the work-amount for cell phone.

Well, I send photos of events back to my employer via email and FTP, over a Telus aircard. What does that fall under? My aircard does have an assigned phone number to it...