{"id":18355,"date":"2019-02-01T13:37:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T18:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=18355"},"modified":"2019-02-01T13:37:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T18:37:33","slug":"esu-accounting-students-and-united-way-team-up-to-provide-free-tax-preparation-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/esu-accounting-students-and-united-way-team-up-to-provide-free-tax-preparation-services\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU Accounting Students and United Way Team Up To Provide Free Tax Preparation Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students majoring in accounting at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania are partnering with the United Way of Monroe County to provide free tax preparation assistance through a program sponsored by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). This Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program will be offered at the following three locations beginning Monday, February 4 through April 15, 2019. Income-eligible taxpayers, those who do not earn more than $54,000 per year and who do not have rental or self-employment income, are able to obtain free tax assistance, including free preparation and filing of their personal tax returns.<\/p>\n<p>Locations for VITA Tax Service Assistance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The new Pocono Alliance office in Stroudsburg (301 McConnell Street)<\/li>\n<li>The United Way of Monroe County office in Tannersville (135 Warner Road)<\/li>\n<li>The Mountain Center in Tobyhanna (5800 Memorial Boulevard)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Appointments are required and may be made by calling Lucas DeBartolo, administrative and project officer and IRS VITA program coordinator, at 570-629-5657 ext. 117. No walk-ins will be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Sylvester Williams, dean of ESU\u2019s College of Business and Management, this partnership has a very important place in our community. \u201cThe United Way of Monroe County has a strong history of making an impact for positive change as they address the issues of hunger and homelessness among our neighbors. Their organization has been a catalyst for mobilizing community resources to care for those in need. East Stroudsburg University brings 125 years of service-oriented leadership through education and by supporting community initiatives. This partnership leverages the United Way&#8217;s ability for mobilizing volunteers and ESU&#8217;s accounting students, who bring their top-tier accounting and tax accounting education to benefit low-income taxpayers. This service offers ESU students majoring in accounting an opportunity to apply their knowledge, interact with clients and learn how to use IRS-provided software. This is an excellent way for these students to gain additional real-world business experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students majoring in accounting at ESU are partnering with the United Way of Monroe County to provide free tax preparation assistance through a program sponsored by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18356,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18355\/revisions\/18356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}