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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
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.
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Being in IT, I get to deal with tablets (iOS, Android, Windows) For the iOS and Android devices, Facebook, Youtube, Weibo, Twitter, other social media apps and a TV watching app or two are among the high usage programs. Admittedly, Facebook can be a high usage program even if you never actually use it. As long as an installed app is not on our "bad apps" list (bit torrent clients, Xunlei, Kugoo Soribada and other peer-2-peer apps are examples), we really don't care. For some reason, the Windows tablets don't seem to get as much personal use though we've been shocked a few times when working on them. Don't the lusers ever think about cleaning the bloody hard drive before sending their device in for repair?
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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
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). |
Revenue Canada doesn't seem to care about supplying a tablet for employee use as long as the majority of the use is for business. Nor is a corporate phone considered a benefit these days. A couple of decades ago, when only the few were given phones and the rest made do with pagers, they were considered a taxable benefit but now they seem to be considered a necessity.