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Volunteers
GREENSBORO -- Community
volunteers prepared more than
14,000 Federal income tax
returns free this year for North
Carolina citizens who were either
unable to afford to pay for the
service or were unable to prepare
their returns themselves. It is called
Volunteer Income Tax
Assistance (VITA) and it is sponsored
by the Internal Revenue
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The 84 groups of volunteers in
55 counties also prepared almost
7,400 North Carolina state tax
returns and answered about 2,500
questions about taxes in general.
Volunteers are sought from
communities throughout the state
and are trained by the IRS. This
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involved in VITA. A special need
is for persons who will accept a
leadership role in recruiting other
volunteers in their communities
and establishing VITA sites to
open next January. Areas where
little or no VITA organization
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Susan Alberty, VITA Coordinator
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"This is an excellent way in
which a person with a few hours a
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community a real service. 1 don't
know of any other IRS program
that meets such a specific and
personal need as VITA does."
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assistance when needed. Alberty
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to help them when a problem
arises that they can't handle."
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