Stuck on a tax question? Intimidated by filing a return?
You can get free help preparing and filing your returns from IRS-certified volunteers at 154 sites across Oregon, and many more nationwide.
program, the
program and
all offer the assistance, mostly for free. The sites will be open through April 15. Some sites take walk-ins. Others require appointments.
CASH Oregon, a nonprofit that helps coordinate the services, keeps a list of site locations and times of service throughout Oregon at
. Or dial
211
and a
operator will help locate a site.
A few locations limit help to taxpayers with incomes of $49,000 or less.
CASH Oregon lists 36 sites in Multnomah County alone, some providing help in Spanish, Hindi, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Korean, French and German. CASH Oregon even has
in those languages.
CASH is short for Creating Assets, Savings and Hope. In 2012,
helped 56,500 file returns and obtain average refunds of nearly $1,500. Their average adjusted gross income was $23,800.
KeyBank, the City of Beaverton and CASH Oregon are offering the eighth annual Super Refund Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the
at
. Help is on a first-come, first serve basis. Call 503-243-7765 to learn which items to bring.
was held at two sites and led to the filing of 155 returns. This year, only the Beaverton site is open on Saturday.
Nationwide and in Washington state, readers can find volunteer tax-prep help by searching the
or the
. Or call 1-800-906-9887.
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