IRS Material: Utilities
Pub 535
Utilities. Your business expenses for heat, lights, power, and telephone are deductible. However, any part due to personal use is not deductible. Telephone. If you have an office in your home, even though you are in business, you cannot deduct the cost of basic local telephone service (including any taxes) for the first telephone line you have in your home. Cellular telephone. Generally, any cellular telephone or similar telecommunications equipment is listed property. If listed property is not used more than 50% for qualified business use during any tax year, special rules apply to the section 179 deduction and the depreciation deduction. See chapter 4 of Publication 946.