Volunteer Income Tax Program gets your taxes done free

Yellowhead County’s Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) brings you the Volunteer Income Tax Program. If you’re eligible, you can get your taxes done for free!

(February 26, 2019) – The Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (brought to you by Yellowhead County’s Family and Community Support Services) has volunteers registered with and vetted by the Canadian Revenue Agency ready to help you with your taxes!

If eligible, you can drop off your T4s, T5s, donations, medical expenses and the previous year’s income tax return at either Yellowhead County office, Entwistle Library, Edson Friendship Centre FCSS, and Town of Hinton FCSS. You will be contacted at a later date to pick up your tax return. The program hours are as follows: 8 a.m. to 12 noon; then 1 p.m. to 4:30 .m., Monday to Friday at the Wildwood Office, and 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday at the Edson Office.

Please note that you will be asked to complete a questionnaire and sign an authorization form to e-file your tax return by the volunteers. No records or documents will be kept by the volunteers.

To be eligible, your Tax Returns must be simple (no business or farm income, no capital gains, no depreciation and not a death return). You must also be a resident of Yellowhead or Parkland County, and have a low income, wherein a single Income is $35,000 or less, couples income is $47,500 or less, and a single adult with dependent income is $37,500 or less. As well, note that a current tax return is required for federal benefits to continue without disruption.

For more information, please call Yellowhead County at 780325-3782 or 1-800-814-3935.