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Free Summer Tax Help

For information about summer tax help at our Southwest Neighborhood Tax Center in Spanish, please click here.

Accounting Aid Society began its Summer Tax Program May 5. The program serves low and moderate income residents who missed the April 15 tax deadline, have past year returns or credits to file, need to amend a return, or did not file for the tax rebate (economic stimulus payment).

Eligibility for the free service is based on annual household income and is available to families with annual household incomes of $40,000 or less, and individuals with annual incomes of $20,000 or less.

• Tax services will be available Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at our Osborn Neighborhood Tax Center,  13560 E. McNichols, 48205 (inside the Matrix  Human Services building). Appointments must be made by calling 313-245-5220. Click here for a map.
       
• Tax services will be available Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at our Southwest Neighborhood Tax Center, 7000 West Fort Street, 48209. Appointments must be made by calling 313-554-2884. Services at this site are also available in Spanish. Click here for a map.
  
  The two centers will be open through September 30, subject to client demand. Both tax sites are made possible through a partnership with Skillman Foundation's Good Neighborhoods Initiative. The southwest tax site is also a  partnership with Rep. Steve Tobocman.
  
  
• Seniors and those physically unable to visit a tax site may take advantage of Accounting Aid's mail-in Summer Tax Program, which begins June 2 and runs through August 29. Information packets are available by calling 313-647-9620. 
   
  More specifically, the Summer Tax Program will:
            -  prepare federal income tax returns for 2005, 2006 and 2007
            -  prepare state income tax returns for 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007
            -  prepare city income tax returns for 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007
            -  amend returns for the years above

            Credits that may be filed include:
                       -  the Earned Income Tax Credit for 2005, 2006 and 2007
                       -  the Homestead Property Tax Credit (Renter's Rebate) for 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007
                       -  the Home Heating Credit for 2007

            File the Tax Rebate (Economic Stimulus Payment). Click here for more information on the rebate.