Creighton University students are giving back to their community by helping others file their income taxes for free.Creighton’s accounting program is working with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program to do this. Kristin Swolley spent her Saturday morning filing her taxes, with the help of accounting students at Creighton University.”You just take your stuff, they do it and they tell you what you get right there, so you don’t have to wait,” Swolley said. “They could go to any number of tax prepares, even use turbo tax on their own. But all those services cost money,” said senior accounting student Matt Kubicek.People who seek help through VITA qualify if they make less than $56,000 a year. Others may be disabled or still learning English.”That $200 that they could spend somewhere else, they’re saving and they get to keep that money,” Kubicek said.Kubicek and other students had to take an income tax class and pass IRS qualification exams. “The stuff we learn in class is so applicable to the real world that we’re able to share that knowledge with people and explain how taxes work, with people who have never understood that concept,” Kubicek told KETV Newswatch 7 on Saturday.Accounting Professor Dr. Tom Purcell says this service teaches his students the important of giving back.”Creighton’s commitment to justice is to help the least among us and that’s part of our Jesuit ethos and our values,” Purcell said.”It’s like, a God thing,” Swolley said. “It helps people. It really does.”The event will also happen on Feb. 29, March 21 and March 28th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.For more information or to find out if you’re eligible for this service, go here.
Creighton University students are giving back to their community by helping others file their income taxes for free.
Creighton’s accounting program is working with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program to do this.
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Kristin Swolley spent her Saturday morning filing her taxes, with the help of accounting students at Creighton University.
“You just take your stuff, they do it and they tell you what you get right there, so you don’t have to wait,” Swolley said.
“They could go to any number of tax prepares, even use turbo tax on their own. But all those services cost money,” said senior accounting student Matt Kubicek.
People who seek help through VITA qualify if they make less than $56,000 a year. Others may be disabled or still learning English.
“That $200 that they could spend somewhere else, they’re saving and they get to keep that money,” Kubicek said.
Kubicek and other students had to take an income tax class and pass IRS qualification exams.
“The stuff we learn in class is so applicable to the real world that we’re able to share that knowledge with people and explain how taxes work, with people who have never understood that concept,” Kubicek told KETV Newswatch 7 on Saturday.
Accounting Professor Dr. Tom Purcell says this service teaches his students the important of giving back.
“Creighton’s commitment to justice is to help the least among us and that’s part of our Jesuit ethos and our values,” Purcell said.
“It’s like, a God thing,” Swolley said. “It helps people. It really does.”
The event will also happen on Feb. 29, March 21 and March 28th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information or to find out if you’re eligible for this service, go here.
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