{"id":323,"date":"2008-02-29T09:23:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T14:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/02\/29\/students-make-filing-taxes-less-taxing\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T09:23:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T14:23:10","slug":"students-make-filing-taxes-less-taxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/02\/students-make-filing-taxes-less-taxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Students make filing taxes less taxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, we wrote about how Baylor Law School was providing an excellent service to the community with its <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/02\/26\/making-the-law-more-user-friendly\/\" target=\"_blank\">People&#8217;s Law School<\/a>. Today comes word that a number of Baylor business school students are getting in on the act, as well, working with the A.J. Moore Academy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/business\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=49273\" target=\"_blank\">to help local low-income families complete their tax returns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The involvement is part of a national service, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/individuals\/article\/0,,id=107626,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program<\/a>, which trains volunteers to provide free income tax preparation for those who need it most. Since the Waco program started in January, over 660 returns have been filed; organizers expect to file as many as 2,000 returns by April 15.<\/p>\n<p>I like what David Hall, a junior accounting major, had to say: &#8220;This program has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my time at Baylor. Not only do I get the hands-on experience of completing tax returns for people, but it also gives me the opportunity to serve the Waco community in a way I never anticipated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, students!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, we wrote about how Baylor Law School was providing an excellent service to the community with its People&#8217;s Law School. Today comes word that a number of Baylor business school students are getting in on the act, as well, working with the A.J. Moore Academy to help local low-income families [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-service","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}