{"id":22842,"date":"2016-02-19T16:06:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T22:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=22842"},"modified":"2016-02-19T16:06:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T22:06:10","slug":"students-providing-free-help-with-tax-returns-at-annual-vita-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/19\/students-providing-free-help-with-tax-returns-at-annual-vita-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Providing Free Help With Tax Returns at Annual VITA Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students are volunteering their time and services as part of the Internal Revenue Service&rsquo;s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program at Bemidji State University.<\/p>\n<p>Students who have completed the Tax I course and passed IRS certification tests are offering free tax assistance each week on Wednesday and Thursday from 3-6 p.m. through April 14. These students use their tax knowledge to provide assistance to other students, including international students with special requirements, and to low-income and elderly individuals in the area who may be uncomfortable or unfamiliar with tax law and filing requirements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About VITA<\/strong><br>\nThe Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program offers free tax help to people who generally make $53,000 or less, persons with disabilities, the elderly and limited English speaking taxpayers who need assistance in preparing their own tax returns. IRS-certified volunteers provide free basic income tax return preparation with electronic filing to qualified individuals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bemidji<\/strong><br>\nBemidji |56601| Theron Granbois, senior; business administration, accounting<br>\nBemidji |56601| Dallas Moren, senior; accounting, business administration<br>\nBemidji |56601| John Forseth, senior; accounting, liberal education<br>\nBemidji |56601| Katryna Heisler, senior; accounting, business administration<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minnesota<\/strong><br>\nAlbany |56307| Anna Rausch, senior; accounting, business administration<br>\nBecker |55308| Kaitlin Garding, senior; business administration, accounting<br>\nScandia |55073| Erikka Bildeaux, senior; business administration, Spanish<\/p>\n<p><strong>South Dakota<\/strong><br>\nPierre |57501| Joseph Tetzlaff, senior; business administration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students are volunteering their time and services as part of the Internal Revenue Service&#8217;s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program at Bemidji State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22844,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22842\/revisions\/22844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}