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Originally Posted by DNSB
..but going by the corporate vs. personal sales numbers (1), personal use tablets outsell corporate use tablets by a considerable margin by number sold though the corporate tablets tend to be from the more expensive end of the price curve. Admittedly, from my view in IT, our corporate tablets are being used more for personal uses than corporate uses while others may be using their personal tablets for work purposes.
(1) Depending on whose numbers you want to believe, they tend to be all over the place...
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Yes I would be pretty confident that personal sales of tablets are considerably higher here than corporate/government/etc.
I don't know about private use of corporate provided tablets, I suspect it is considerable but offset to some extent in that most receiving a corporate owned tablet will also be provided with a smartphone. In which case an employer's provision of a smartphone and bandwidth to an employee is one of the very few things an employer can provide free of tax (tax free to the employee and deductible to the employer) so I suspect private use on corporate cellphones may predominate.
EDIT: Just checked on this as was not 100% sure, but here a tablet provided to an employee is regarded as providing a cash benefit to the employee unless can be proven is entirely for business purposes (which might be difficult
). In which case the employer is required to pay the tax on the benefit. So, for here, it may be that personal use of corporate provided devices is encouraged towards smartphones which are not regarded as benefits (I assume due to the impracticality of the Revenue being able to monitor).