Marilyn Clark: AARP Foundation seeks volunteers for free tax preparation program - The Florida Times-Union

In 2009 “sitting connected the beach” astatine my consulting occupation (and bored), I saw an nonfiction astir AARP Foundation Tax-Aide and began what is present 13 years of volunteering each taxation season. I person ne'er regretted this decision. 

Tax-Aide provides taxation mentation assistance for anyone escaped of charge. Neither volunteers nor taxpayers request to beryllium members of AARP and determination is nary income transportation for different services. Tax volunteers survey online successful November and December and ceremonial grooming classes are scheduled for January 2023. 

Many taxpayers overpay their taxes oregon crook to paid taxation services they cannot afford. Some whitethorn forgo filing their taxes and miss retired connected the credits and deductions they’ve earned due to the fact that they are incapable to wage for assistance. Tax-Aide volunteers tin assistance by providing indispensable services successful communities wherever determination is the top need. 

AARP Foundation Tax-Aide has grown since its inaugural squad of conscionable 4 volunteers successful 1968 and has served much than 68 cardinal taxpayers since its inception. The programme has volunteers successful each authorities who typically fig much than 30,000. AARP Foundation Tax-Aide is offered successful coordination with the IRS Tax Counseling for the Elderly program. 

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We are looking for compassionate and affable radical to articulation our unpaid team. We’ll supply the grooming and enactment to assistance you larn caller skills and you’ll get a large feeling from helping those successful need. The programme is looking for individuals to unpaid successful idiosyncratic — with carnal distancing measures successful place.

Volunteers travel from a assortment of industries and scope from retirees to assemblage students. All levels and types of acquisition are invited for a assortment of roles: 

• Counselors enactment with taxpayers straight by filling retired taxation returns. If you person nary erstwhile experience, you’ll get the grooming you request and volition besides person IRS certification. 
• Client facilitators invited taxpayers, assistance signifier their paperwork and negociate the wide travel of service. 
• Technology coordinators negociate machine equipment, guarantee payer information is unafraid and supply method assistance to volunteers. 
• Leadership and administrative volunteers marque definite programme operations tally smoothly, negociate volunteers and support prime control. 
• Also for taxation professionals, the IRS offers Continuing Education (CE) credits for those who unpaid to service arsenic counselors, instructors and/or prime reviewers. 

Last year, successful Duval County, AARP Foundation Tax-Aide volunteers completed 2,881 returns with refunds totaling $3,239,478 and we applied for $506,443 successful credits. This would not beryllium imaginable without our volunteers, who marque an indelible people connected the taxpayers we enactment with and the communities wherever they live.  

To larn much astir our unpaid opportunities, sojourn AARPFoundation.org/taxaide oregon telephone 1-888-OUR-AARP (1-888-687-2277). 

Marilyn Clark, territory coordinator, AARP Foundation Tax-Aide 

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