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2025 - Free Income Tax Preparation offered by AARP at Henry Beauchamp Center

2025 - Free Income Tax Preparation offered by AARP at Henry Beauchamp Center

Provides free electronic income tax preparation assistance for seniors, disabled adults, and low- to moderate-income individuals. Each return requires a separate appointment. Types of Earned Income: - Wages, salary or tips where federal income taxes are withheld on Form W-2, box 1 - Income from a job where your employer didn’t withhold tax (such as gig economy work) including: Driving a car for booked rides or deliveries; Running errands or doing tasks; Selling goods online; Providing creative or professional services; Providing other temporary, on-demand or freelance work - Money made from self-employment, including if you: Own or operate a business or farm; Are a minister or member of a religious order; Are a statutory employee and have income - Benefits from a union strike - Certain disability benefits you got before you were the minimum retirement age - Nontaxable Combat Pay (Form W-2, box 12 with code Q): If you claim nontaxable combat pay as earned income, it may increase or decrease the amount of your EITC Earned income does not include: - Pay you got for work when you were an inmate in a penal institution - Interest and dividends - Pensions or annuities - Social Security - Unemployment benefits - Alimony - Child support

Physical Address

1211 South 7th Street, Yakima, WA 98901

Hours

Feb 4 - April 15, 2025: Tu-Th, 9am-1pm. Appointments are required—NO WALK-INS.

Application process

Call for an appointment. Taxpayers should plan to arrive 15 minutes prior to their appointment time to complete the Intake/Interview questionnaire. Initial appointment will include completing questionnaire, meeting with tax counselor, and scanning of all tax documents.

Fee

None.

Eligibility

2025 Earned Income Credit Eligibility Information # of Children Earned Income (and adjusted gross income) must be less than: Maximum Credit will be: 0 $19,104 ($26,214 if married and filing a joint return) $649 1 $50,434 ($57,554 if married and filing a joint return) $4,328 2 $57,310 ($64,430 if married and filing a joint return) $7,152 3 $61,555 ($68,675 if married and filing a joint return) $8,046 Investment Income Limit: $11,950 or less Does my child qualify? To qualify, the child has to be: - Your son, daughter, stepchild, adopted child or a descendant. - Your foster child, placed with you by an authorized agency or court order. - Your brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister or a descendant of one of these. - Age 18 or younger as of the end of the year (unless the child is a full-time student, in which case the student has to be 23 or younger). Exception: A person who is permanently and totally disabled at any time during the year qualifies, no matter how old. - A resident with you in the United States for more than half of the year. Example: You and your sister live together. You are 30 and your sister is 15. When your parents died two years ago, you took over the care of your sister, but you did not adopt her. She is considered a qualifying child because she lived with you more than half of the year. Who is an eligible foster child? For the Earned Income Credit, a foster child is defined as an individual who is placed with you by an authorized placement agency or court order. The child is required to have lived with you for more than half of the year. What about my welfare benefits? The Earned Income Credit has no effect on certain welfare benefits. Any refund you receive because of the EIC generally will not be considered income when determining whether you are eligible for, or how much you can receive from, the following benefit programs: - Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) - Medicaid and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) - Food stamps - Low-income housing Earned income does not include: - Pay you got for work when you were an inmate in a penal institution - Interest and dividends - Pensions or annuities - Social Security - Unemployment benefits - Alimony - Child support

Service area

Yakima, WA

Agency info

EITC/VITA Sites

Provides free tax preparation assistance for low-income individuals.