Showing posts with label February 4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label February 4. Show all posts

Sunday, February 14, 2010


Tonight was my first night volunteering with VITA, the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program sponsored by the IRS. I went to the Catholic Charity building downtown, and they set up a little office for me. I was there for 3 hours, and did 3 tax returns. It was very confusing, and I kept having to go ask the other woman all sorts of questions. I didn't have any problems with the taxes (except for one girl with a kid and tuition, it took 4 of us to decide what to do), but I didn't know the log-in name, what forms to keep for our records, what button to push for efile, etc. It was kind of disorganized. I thought it was pretty bad, but at the end of the night the other woman was amazed that I had done 3 returns in only 3 hours. So I guess it didn't go as bad as I thought. Good, because I'm scheduled to do this for another 5 weeks.