{"id":2345,"date":"2016-02-26T13:08:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T18:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2016-02-26T13:08:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T18:08:31","slug":"free-help-with-tax-return-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/taxes\/free-help-with-tax-return-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Help With Tax Return Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mlsfkhvpsenu.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/1040Tax.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2191\"><img data-opt-id=1654668730  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mlsfkhvpsenu.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:200\/q:mauto\/f:best\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/1040Tax.jpg\" alt=\"1040 Tax return Help\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of great options to get free help with your tax return preparation this year. This is especially important if<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;re not sure what to do with the new Forms 1095<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t know if you qualify for the Premium Tax Credit (PTC)<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t know how to calculate the PTC<\/li>\n<li>You might be exempt from the coverage requirements of the Affordable Care Act<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One way you can get free tax preparation is from <strong>IRS certified volunteers in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program<\/strong>. For more details about this program click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/Individuals\/Free-Tax-Return-Preparation-for-You-by-Volunteers\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another way is to use <strong>brand-name commercial tax preparation software<\/strong> from one of thirteen companies who are participating <strong>in this year&#8217;s IRS Free File program<\/strong>. Each vendor sets their own restrictions on which taxpayers can use their free service, based on<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adjusted gross income (AGI)<\/li>\n<li>Age<\/li>\n<li>State of residence<\/li>\n<li>Military status<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.irs.gov\/app\/freeFile\/jsp\/wizard.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for the Free File Wizard<\/strong> to find out if you qualify and to learn more details about each of the software products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of great options to get free help with your tax return preparation this year. This is especially important if<\/p>\n<p> You&#8217;re not sure what to do with the new Forms 1095 You don&#8217;t know if you qualify for the Premium Tax Credit (PTC) You don&#8217;t know how to calculate the PTC [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[295,293,294],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taxes","tag-free-tax-preparation","tag-irs-free-file","tag-vita","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}