Tax time for many people is a time of stress. For adults who have experienced too many April 15ths already, they're stressed again this year because they remember the size of the check they wrote to the IRS last year, and the year before that, and the decades before that. Many Utah State University students, however, are new to the yearly tax trauma. Either they haven't had to pay taxes in the past because they didn't make enough money, or it was easy to ask Mom or Dad to fill in the blanks for them. But they're not alone anymore.
Free help is available.
A volunteer student organization at USU is providing income tax assistance for students and community members. People come in dreading the worst because the IRS has such a bad image, but they're relieved when they find out we can help make things easier. In this case, the IRS can take some of the credit. VITA was created and funded by the IRS as another way to help people get answers to their tax questions. The IRS looks for volunteer organizations to host VITA sites, Dustin said, and the USU chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, the professional accounting fraternity, responded to the call.