The seventeenth season of free tax preparation services for Boston residents kicked off yesterday with a launch event at Codman Square Health Center celebrated by Mayor Martin Walsh, the Boston Tax Help Coalition, and key community partners. Residents earning $54,000
A key wedge driving the gap between Boston’s affluent and low- and middle-income residents is credit. While good credit opens the door to low-cost loans, poor or no credit can make innumerable life transactions more expensive, from car loans to
The Boston Tax Help Coalition would like to thank the 424 Volunteers who dedicated their time during the 2017 tax season to prepare taxes and pull credit reports for FREE to City residents. Without their commitment and hard work, this free tax
Joanne Evans, BTHC Asset Building Program Coordinator, has officially retired on July 1, 2017. Joanne first begun her career with BTHC as a Assistant Site Tax Coordinator for the Roxbury Center for Financial Empowerment. She has then served as the Asset Building
The Boston Tax Help Coalition strives to make its free tax help services accessible to all who qualify, regardless of physical ability. This year, as in past years, the Coalition teamed up with community partners to provide high-quality tax services to the
You get three extra days to gather your paperwork and file your tax return in 2017! The tax deadline is April 18, 2017. The following tax sites will be open on April 18th: Codman Square Health Center 450 Washington St.,
For years, Victoria has been coming to the Roxbury Center for Financial Empowerment to get her taxes done for free. “Everybody’s friendly and nice,” she said. “It’s worth it!” This Saturday, for example, her volunteer Boston Tax Help Coalition tax
Created in 2005, the Boston Tax Help Coalition’s Ambassador Program does outreach to immigrant communities who can qualify for free tax preparation and financial services. We have eight Ambassadors who act as community leaders for the Coalition. Each ambassador is
Before the Office of Financial Empowerment (OFE) begins preparing for the 2017 tax season, we wanted to share our 2016 results. In 2016, the OFE’s Boston Tax Help Coalition operated 37 free tax preparation sites throughout Boston. These sites opened
Last week, I showed up one of the Boston Tax Help Coalition’s VITA tax sites: Urban Edge to get my taxes done – for free – wondering why, in my 10 years in Boston, I’d never done this before. Maybe