HLS TaxHelp
Thank you for your interest in TaxHelp. Our mandatory training session for the 2009 tax season occurred on February 7, and the training powerpoint is now available here. If you did not attend training and have not made make-up training arrangements, you unfortunately will not be able to volunteer for the 2009 tax season . You can e-mail taxhelp@law.harvard.edu if you have questions, would like to be added to our email list, or cannot attend on Feb 7 and need information about make-up training.
HLS TaxHelp provides low-income individuals and families in Boston and Cambridge with free, confidential tax assistance in preparing state and federal tax returns. Volunteers receive all the necessary training in a one-day session early in the spring semester. Volunteers need not have math ability or tax background - many volunteers in past years had never prepared their own taxes before. We use a user-friendly computer program called TaxWise that fills out the forms automatically, and we e-file most returns on-site.
We encourage you to volunteer - helping these taxpayers is very rewarding, and clients tend to be really appreciative. Assistance is provided Fridays 1-5 and Saturdays 10-2 from February 27 through April 15 at the Community Learning Center in Central Square (with no sessions March 27-28 due to spring break). HLS TaxHelp performs this community service project in conjunction with the Internal Revenue Services's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA), as well as the HLS Pro Bono program (all volunteer hours count toward the pro bono requirement). We hope you will remember HLS TaxHelp in the spring.
The TaxHelp Board:
Jesse Gurman, President
Lane Morgan, Vice President and Treasurer
Rachel Carlton
Kevin Korzeniewski
Gaurav Krishan
Rhiannon Nakano