- Last Updated on Thursday, 31 January 2013 22:54
Community Action Southwest (CAS) will once again offer free, basic, online income tax filing assistance to qualified working households in Washington and Greene Counties who made less than $50,000 a year in 2012, regardless of the number of persons living in their household.
Through its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program, the agency assisted a total of 583 households in Washington and Greene Counties to file their income taxes last tax season, and $534,640 was refunded to those taxpayers.
The agency operates its VITA Program in partnership with the Internal Revenue Service and through funding from the United Way of Washington County and the Greene County United Way. Additionally, the majority of volunteers who assist the taxpayers to file their income taxes are students from Washington & Jefferson College and Waynesburg University. Volunteers are trained to assist taxpayers to receive the appropriate tax credits for which they are eligible including the Earned Income Tax Credit, a federally funded tax credit for lower-income working individuals and families.
VITA sites will be open January 31, 2013 through April 11, 2013 in both counties. Appointments are available each week in Washington on Wednesdays from 1 – 8 p.m.
New sites have been added at the Burgettstown Area Library and the John K. Tener Library in Charleroi. Both library partnership sites will be open on Mondays between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. In addition, satellite sites will also operate in Carmichaels, Donora, Canonsburg and Jefferson on various Tuesdays throughout the tax season.
VITA is part of the agency’s Community Action WORKS initiative designed to serve its clients in a comprehensive fashion. Addressing adult education, employability, skills, housing and asset development, while creating opportunities and providing support for economic independence is the framework in which client success is realized.
Appointments are required at all locations. To make an appointment, to get more information or to find out if you qualify please call our office at 1-877-814-0788 ext. 421.
