{"id":4896,"date":"2016-02-15T12:03:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T18:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlegalgrounds.law.memphis.edu\/wordpress\/?p=4896"},"modified":"2016-02-15T12:46:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T18:46:34","slug":"vita-is-looking-for-students-to-be-clients-or-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/vita-is-looking-for-students-to-be-clients-or-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"VITA is looking for Students to be Clients or Volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students from Memphis Law conduct a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program under the supervision of\u00a0Professor Kratzke.\u00a0 The VITA program provides free current year income tax preparation assistance for low-income taxpayers in Shelby County.\u00a0 From February until early April, the VITA program will operate in the Student Lounge on Wednesdays from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.\u00a0 Qualifying students (income under $62k) can receive assistance in preparing their taxes through VITA.\u00a0 Student volunteers can get pro bono hours, but those who assist in tax preparation\u00a0must go through training and pass an online test.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For more information on the program, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/Individuals\/Free-Tax-Return-Preparation-for-You-by-Volunteers\">https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/Individuals\/Free-Tax-Return-Preparation-for-You-by-Volunteers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contacts: Allen Porter (<a href=\"http:\/\/rporter2@memphis.edu\">rporter2@memphis.edu<\/a>) and Professor Kratzke (<a href=\"wkratzke@memphis.edu\">wkratzke@memphis.edu<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students from Memphis Law conduct a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program under the supervision of\u00a0Professor Kratzke.\u00a0 The VITA program provides&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-services","category-stud-affairs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4896"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4900,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions\/4900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/memphislawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}