Know a little something about tax returns?
The SBA is looking for someone to head up the 2007 Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program for GW. The basic purpose of VITA is to provide tax return preparation assistance to low-income, elderly, indigent, or non-English speaking taxpayers. The program is part of the ABA Law Student Division and works in conjunction with other schools in the area to assist these taxpayers with their income tax return issues.
If you are interested in helping organize this program, please email [address].
Granted I normally don't go in much for the whole "helping poor people" thing that a lot of people devote significant portions of their lives to, but in looking at the ad, it just strikes me as strange. From what I remember of the Income Tax course, indigent people frequently don't even have to file returns. If you don't have a job, you are a day laborer, you are a contractor, or your employer doesn't withhold, and you make little enough, the IRS doesn't want your paperwork.
So while the elderly and non-English speakers probably could use help, the rest of this just, well, makes me wonder who exactly puts this sort of thing together.
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I did that the spring before college. Almost all of the people we got were elderly or retired with semi-complicated social security and retirement income. There's not much of a non-English speaking population around here. I did help the occasional low-income younger person but I'm guessing they usually file the simple 1040-EZ +EIC forms themselves.
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