AARP Tax-Aide, Montana

The AARP Tax-Aide mission is to provide high quality free income tax assistance and tax form preparation to middle-to-moderate-income taxpayers, with special attention to those age 60 and older.

Description:
AARP Tax-Aide is the nation’s largest free, volunteer-run tax assistance and preparation service available to taxpayers with low- and middle-income, with special attention to those age 60 and older. Over 32,000 AARP Tax-Aide volunteers, trained in cooperation with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), now help over 2 million taxpayers file their federal, state, and local tax returns each year at nearly 7,000 AARP Tax-Aide sites nationwide.

In Helena, the Tax-Aide Program operates at the Lewis & Clark Library and the Helena Senior Center

History:
AARP Tax-Aide started in 1968 when four volunteers helped older taxpayers complete their tax returns. This was one of AARP’s early efforts to use volunteers to ensure that important services were available to older people.

Since 1980, the program has operated under a cooperative agreement with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as part of its Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) program. In 1996, AARP transferred the federal funds for and the administration of the AARP Tax-Aide program to the AARP Foundation in accordance with the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995.

Contact person: Roger Thorvilson, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email)

Address:

3403 Curlew St Helena, MT 59602 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.aarp.org/taxaide

Directions:

Corner of Road Runner Dr. and Curlew St.

Last updated on October 20, 2009