{"id":17832,"date":"2015-02-03T17:24:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T23:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=17832"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:40:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:40:55","slug":"accounting-students-to-offer-free-income-tax-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=17832","title":{"rendered":"Accounting students to offer free income tax preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HAYS, Kan. &#8212;<\/strong> Fort Hays State University accounting students will offer free income tax preparation through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program in February and March.<\/p>\n<p>Low- to moderate-income ($52,000 and below) citizens are eligible to receive assistance from qualified FHSU students. Over the past several years, the VITA program has aided hundreds of local taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>VITA volunteers are qualified to prepare: Form 1040EZ, 1040A and 1040; Schedule A (Itemized Deductions), Schedule B (Interest and Dividends), and Schedule EIC (Earned Income Credit).<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers are not qualified to do any of the following: Schedule C (Business Income), Schedule D (Capital Gains), Schedule E (Rent Income &amp; Royalties), Schedule F (Farm Income), and foreign student returns.<\/p>\n<p>Tax returns will be prepared on campus in McCartney Hall, room 116, by appointment only. Call 785-628-5805 to schedule the visit.<\/p>\n<p>Taxpayers must bring these items to the VITA site:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Photo identification.<\/li>\n<li>Social Security cards and birthdates for the taxpayer, spouse and dependents.<\/li>\n<li>Wage and earnings statement; Form W-2, W-2G, 1098 and 1099-R from all employers.<\/li>\n<li>Interest and dividend statements from banks (Forms 1099).<\/li>\n<li>A copy of last year\u2019s federal and state returns, if available.<\/li>\n<li>Bank routing numbers and account numbers for direct deposit.<\/li>\n<li>Tuition statement from school (1098-T).<\/li>\n<li>Students must know if they are being claimed as dependents on their parents&#8217; returns.<\/li>\n<li>To file taxes electronically on a Married Filing Joint tax return, both spouses must be present to sign the required forms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Site operating hours:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Mondays from 5:30-7:30 p.m.: Feb. 16, 23 and March 2<br \/>\nTuesdays from 5:30-7:30 p.m.: Feb. 17, 24 and March 3<br \/>\nSaturdays from noon to 3 p.m.: Feb. 28 and March 7<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the FHSU Economics, Finance and Accounting Department at 785-628-5805 or Dr. Charles Gnizak, professor of economics, finance and accounting, at 785-628-4328 or cjgnizak@fhsu.edu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; end &#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAYS, Kan. &#8212; Fort Hays State University accounting students will offer free income tax preparation through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program in February&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3398,11],"tags":[720,4577,69,4578,301,904,879],"class_list":["post-17832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-news","category-news","tag-cobe","tag-economics","tag-fhsu","tag-finance","tag-students","tag-tax","tag-vita"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17834,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17832\/revisions\/17834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}