IRS Awards Grants to Tax Clinics
Courtesy of IRS March 10, 2005
IRS
Awards Approximately $7.5 Million to Tax Clinics Aiding Low Income
Taxpayers
WASHINGTON — The National Taxpayer Advocate, Nina E.
Olson, announced that the Internal Revenue Service has awarded approximately
$7.5 million in matching grants to Low Income Taxpayer Clinics (LITCs)
for the 2005 grant cycle (Jan. 1, 2005, through Dec. 31, 2005). LITCs
are qualifying organizations that represent low income taxpayers involved
in tax disputes with the IRS or that provide education on tax rights
and responsibilities to taxpayers for whom English is a second language
or who have limited English proficiency.
Under the program, the IRS awards matching grants of up
to $100,000 a year to organizations operating independent Low Income
Taxpayer Clinics. For the 2005 grant cycle, the IRS awarded LITC grants
to 145 organizations representing 48 states plus the District of Columbia
and Puerto Rico.
With the enactment of the Consolidated Appropriations Act
of 2005, which provides for the appropriation of $8 million to the IRS
for the use in awarding LITC grants, the IRS is planning a supplemental
grant announcement. The additional $.5 million in grant funds will be
directed to states that do not presently have a tax clinic and to communities
where there is limited clinic accessibility.
This
link goes to the list of organizations awarded a matching grant for
the 2005 grant cycle.
