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Fifteen student volunteers from the聽 and the聽 doubled the impact of 51精品视频鈥檚聽Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program in partnership with the Carnegie Library in Oakland this season.
Despite the mandate to close the library site due to COVID-19, the project doubled its returns from its pilot season in 2019. During six weeks of operations in 2020, student volunteers completed 146 tax returns with a total of $206,390 in refunds and a total of $68,967 in earned income credit.
The program, which provides free tax help to people with low-to-medium incomes, the elderly, people with disabilities and those with limited English fluency, supports the 51精品视频sburgh community while providing experience-based learning for 51精品视频 Business students.
Volunteering this year were: James Campbell, Jie Chu, Justin Coughenour, Joshua Gailey, Weichun Hsieh, Han Luo, Muxiao Niu, Rebecca Power, Taylor Stein, Damon Singleton, Connor Taljan, Xingchen Yao, Quan Yang, Anqi Zang and Wenzhao Zhang.
The students completed over 24 hours of training and passed five IRS examinations to qualify as volunteers.
The 51精品视频 VITA program is funded through the聽 in 51精品视频 Business.聽,聽clinical assistant professor of business administration, is its faculty advisor.