Volunteers needed for county tax assistance program - Port City Daily

NEW HANOVER COUNTY — The region is looking for radical who tin unpaid to assistance residents done the 2022 tax-filing process.

It offers Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) and AARP Tax Aide programs to assistance individuals and families electronically record elemental national and authorities taxation returns. The assistance particularly helps the elder colonisation of the county, according to Senior Resource Center manager Amber Smith.

“Last year, these programs combined to assistance much than 2,500 residents with their taxes,” Smith said.

The VITA programme volition beryllium offered astatine 2 locations — New Hanover County Senior Resource Center (2222 S. College Rd.) and the Town of Carolina Beach (300 Cape Fear Blvd.). Appointments volition beryllium necessary.

The AARP Tax Aide programme volition beryllium disposable astatine the New Hanover County Downtown Library (201 Chestnut Street).

Volunteers volition beryllium needed for astatine slightest 4 hours a week betwixt precocious January to mid April. They volition service arsenic intake specialists, who volition conscionable and surface imaginable clients to find work eligibility. Tax mentation volition not beryllium done by intake volunteers.

Those who hole taxes volition acquisition IRS-approved training, to statesman successful December with self-study work. Volunteers volition past determination into the schoolroom and prosecute successful machine grooming successful January.

“Training concludes with exercises that absorption connected preparing illustration returns connected IRS-provided software,” according to a property release. Volunteers volition beryllium IRS certified by the extremity of the training.

Interested volunteers tin telephone 910-798-6406 or bdoherty@nhcgov.com.

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