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Students in the Income Tax Topics class taught by Shelia Handy, assistant professor of economics and business, are volunteering to help prepare tax returns for low-income residents.
Ten students are working with the Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley (CACLV) through the Internal Revenue Service sponsored Volunteer Income tax Assistance Program (VITA) at the Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton public libraries until April 15.
“I believe it is so important to provide free tax preparation assistance to those who can’t afford to pay a tax preparer,” says Handy.
The class stresses the use of tax law to make financial decisions and students also learn basic tax fundamentals and are trained in actual return preparation by a member of CACLV.
The students who are involved are: Marquis Scholar Nicole Huff ’07 (Springfield, N.J.), who is pursuing a B.S. in neuroscience and an A.B. with a major in economics and business; Nolan Pick ’07 (Salisbury, Md.), a double major in Spanish and economics & business; Marquis Scholar Peter Vanderdrift ’08 (Baldwin, N.Y.), a mathematics-economics major; Craig Snively ’07 (Englewood, Colo.), a double major in international affairs and economics & business; Tashin Hashem ’07 (Dhaka, Bangladesh), an electrical and computer engineering major; Xi Jue; Keming Liang ’08 (Zibo, China), a double major in economics & business and mathematics; Mike Bell ’08 (Shrewsbury, N.J.), an economics and business major; Steve Music ’07 (San Jose, Costa Rica), a mechanical engineering major; and Denica Karadzhova ’07 (Stara Zagora, Bulgaria), an economics and business major.