Phoenix seeking volunteers for income tax assistance program - KTAR.com

PHOENIX — The metropolis of Phoenix is looking for volunteers to assistance debased and constricted income radical record their taxation returns.

The city’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance programme has helped Phoenix residents get much than $100 cardinal implicit the past 18 years.

All sorts of volunteers are needed including scanners to find who is eligible for the work and greeters to assistance docket appointments, not to notation taxation preparers who are certified by the IRS.

“There are galore idiosyncratic and nonrecreational benefits to becoming a VITA volunteer,” VITA Program Coordinator Julie Bordelon said.

“Our squad members springiness backmost to the community, interact with people, marque friends, and network. You’ll larn caller skills that tin assistance physique your resume to get a occupation oregon turn your career. Plus, you’ll prevention money. If you go IRS certified, you’ll ne'er person to wage idiosyncratic other to bash your taxes for you.”

The VITA programme has specifically asked for bilingual volunteers who tin supply assistance arsenic interpreters.

Volunteers are asked to perpetrate to 4 hours per week from January to April erstwhile taxation play ends.

Training to go IRS certified tin instrumentality arsenic small arsenic 24 hours and different volunteers tin implicit grooming with arsenic small arsenic 8 hours.

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