I kid. This is actually a good thing:
The Wal-Mart Foundation yesterday announced a $3.6 million grant to provide free tax preparation services for taxpayers earning less than $56,000 per year through Mobile Tax Center vans which will be set up in various Wal-Mart parking lots for two to three weeks at a time between February 10 and April 11. Wal-Mart is partnering with the United Way and One Economy Corporation to offer this service. Visit see www.myfreetaxes.com for van locations.
Filing taxes should be easy, especially for people with lower incomes. Hiring a tax professional (ahem) insures you'll get the best prepared return but having your return prepared for free's not bad, either.
(Want to avoid the likely long lines at Wal-Mart? Drop your information off to our office and we'll have it back to you in a few days. No, we can't do it while you wait but then you wouldn't be waiting, you'd be getting on with your life.)
Via the good TaxProf.
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ReplyDeleteHahaha! I gotta say it is a bit creepy that they're doing it out of vans and with a crap-ton of grant money, even though they say they can't even afford to hire new employees due to the bad economy. Again, though, the main weirdness factor is that they're doing it out of vans. Honestly, it sounds like their sinister way of luring in and kidnapping people to work as slave labor (it is walmart, after all). Pretty good idea, though. I guess the whole "Wanna come pet my new puppy? He's in the van..." technique would've been too obvious. Hahaha!
ReplyDeleteHmmm, hadn't quite thought of it that way: tax preparation as a hook to shanghai employees. It's so obvious now. Their nefarious plot has been spoiled!
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