VITA

The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (V.I.T.A.) program offered through the Coastal Bend CA$H Coalition assists low-income working families help to prepare and e-file their tax returns.     

Downloadable flyer HERE.

Pictured above: Mary Ann Villanueva, volunteer from CCISD

Volunteer Application

• Printable version with mailing instructions
• Online (User name: vita and Password: volunteer)

Community members are invaluable to the success of the VITA program. During the 2010 tax filing season, volunteers prepared more than 1,800 returns in the Coastal Bend area resulting in almost $2 million dollars worth of refunds.

It is estimated that nearly $31 million of potential Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) funds are unclaimed in our local area when hard-working families do not file for them at tax time. That money is lost to them and to our local economy. Additionally, thousands of dollars more is unnecessarily lost when area families pay high fees to commercial tax preparation firms offering Refund Anticipation Loans (RALs) or rapid returns. You can help!

Volunteer Positions - with links to each job description:

Income Tax Preparer Interpreter Screener/Greeter Quality Reviewer

Heather Callaway, 2011 VITA site coordinator

Click on schedule above to download PDF version.

For more information on this unique volunteer opportunity, contact Donna Hurley at (361) 882-2529 or donna.hurley@uwcb.org.

2011 Report
The final numbers for the 2011 VITA Tax Season which includes total returns filed, dollars reclaimed and more can be found here.

Thank you to all our volunteers!

Pictured from left, volunteer Jesse Escamilla retired from Dupont is able to assist clients in both Spanish and English and on the right, volunteer Inglan Iniquez, a Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi student enters a tax payer's information into the TaxWise filing system.