Free Tax Preparation

You can get your income tax return prepared and filed for free at any one of 17 United Way sponsored tax sites throughout King County between now and April 15, 2010. The free tax preparation service will be provided by IRS trained multilingual volunteers. For a list of free tax preparation sites in King County, click this link:
http://www.uwkc.org/ourcommunity/endinghomelessness/eitc/where.asp
You can also find a free tax-preparation site in your area, by calling 2-1-1 from any phone in King County (this is a free call, even from payphones). Tell the 211 operator that you want information about free tax preparation services. Be sure to tell them you heard about this through Community Voice Mail.
Also, you may be eligible to receive a refund of up to $5,657 through the Earned Income Tax Credit, a refundable tax credit for working people with low and moderate incomes.

To receive the Earned Income Tax Credit on a 2009 tax return, you must:
• Have a valid Social Security number
• Have lived in the United States for more than half the year
• Made less than $ 3,100 from investment income
• Have earned income
• Be a U.S. citizen or resident alien
• Be between the ages of 25 and 65
or had dependent children under age 19 (under 24 for full time students or a permanently and totally disabled child of any age) living with you for more than half of 2009.

In addition, a taxpayer's earned income and adjusted gross income must each be less than:
• $48,279 ($43,279 for a single-parent household) with three or more qualifying children
• $45,295 ($40,295 for a single-parent household) with two or more qualifying children
• $40,463 ($35,463 for a single-parent household) with one qualifying child
• $18,440 ($13,440 for single individuals) with no qualifying children

The Maximum credit is
• $5,657 with three or more qualified children
• $5,028 with two qualified children
• $3,043 with one qualified child
• $457 if you have no qualified children
To estimate how much money you could receive, use this
Earned Income Tax Credit Estimator
http://www.cbpp.org/eic2009/calculator/

For more information see the United Way Tax Campaign website
http://www.uwkc.org/ourcommunity/endinghomelessness/eitc/default.asp

Good luck and get your taxes done!