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AARP Arizona Seeks Volunteers for Tax-Aide Program

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Monday, October 13, 2014   

PHOENIX – Arizonans who enjoy working with numbers might enjoy volunteering for the AARP Foundation Tax-Aide program. It provides free tax preparation services for thousands of people in the state.

Fran Molleur, a volunteer who works with Tax-Aide, says the program needs volunteers to train in advance of the program going live early next year.

"For people who like numbers and like to work with computers, they can be trained to be counselors and quality reviewers,” she says. “For people who prefer not to work with computers, we can use greeters and receptionists."

Molleur says the training is IRS-certified for the Tax-Aide volunteers, who work out of about 80 locations across the state.

She adds the program, geared toward seniors and low to moderate-income taxpayers, helped more than 90,000 people in Arizona file their federal and state tax returns last year.

Molleur says volunteers are asked to commit to working about 40 hours at a Tax-Aide site between February and April. She adds it would help the program grow if more people in rural areas would volunteer.

"Probably our greatest need is in the rural areas,” she explains. “And we are limited in the number of returns that we can prepare because of the number of volunteers that we have."

The AARP Foundation Tax-Aide program is in its 46th year and is the nation's largest free tax assistance and preparation service.

For more information on volunteering, visit the AARP Arizona website.





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