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Volunteer Income Tax Assistance A Family Economic Success Program of EBALD C
Since 2003, EBALDC has successfully run the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program to provide free tax preparation services for low to moderate income families. Our goal is to ensure that more working families in the East Bay are claiming tax credits and refunds for which they are eligible, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). The EBALDC VITA program maximizes its impact by being a gateway to other community benefits and services.
With the assistance of hundreds of volunteers from the community, and collaboration with SparkPoint Oakland partner organizations, the IRS and financial supporters, EBALDC’s VITA program has served more than 5,800 low income individuals, families, and entrepreneurs and returned more than $6.9 million in federal and state refunds to the community.
2012 vita results 120 volunteers 2690 hours of service 1391 TAX RETURNS FILED $833,588 in EITC claimed $1.8M in refunds to the community
This program is supported by:
total Tax returns filed by year
cumulative refunds by year
1500 1391
1200
TOTAL $ IN REFUNDS
1200 1044
900 699
600
573 366
300 49 2003
127
154
2004
2005
2007
ToTaL reFuNds
ToTaL eiTC
238 2006
Since 2003, EBALDC has helped to return over $6.9M in refunds and $3.5M in EITC.
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012