{"id":4889,"date":"2022-02-09T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2022-02-09T10:08:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T14:08:04","slug":"municipality-no-longer-administrating-volunteer-tax-prep-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2022\/02\/09\/municipality-no-longer-administrating-volunteer-tax-prep-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipality no longer administrating volunteer tax prep program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo Ed Halverson<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

The Region of Queens is stepping away from a program that provides people with help to file their income taxes opting to go to a volunteer coordinator.<\/p>\n

Mayor Darlene Norman says the municipality has offered staff time to assist with scheduling a program providing people assistance to file their income tax for the past 10 years.<\/p>\n

For eight weeks each year, four to six volunteers make themselves available at the Liverpool legion on a weekly basis to help people prepare their income tax.<\/p>\n

Norman says a large amount of recreation staff time went into the program answering 2,400 calls in 2021 booking close to 800 appointments.<\/p>\n

Because of that investment in resources Norman says the Region looked to the community for a volunteer to take on the coordinator role.<\/p>\n

Norman says it didn\u2019t take long for three people to offer their services.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not something that\u2019s the responsibility of municipal government and people recognize that,\u201d said Norman.<\/p>\n

She says the new volunteer coordinator will be able to take bookings outside municipal staff hours making the program more flexible for users.<\/p>\n

It also shows not every job needs to be taken on by government as there are many people willing to step forward to help their community<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause they are an at-home person, they\u2019ve had experience with this program before, they understand the workload they\u2019re taking on and they think this would be a great way to give back to people,\u201d said Norman.<\/p>\n

Tax preparation clinics will be held by appointment, every Tuesday afternoon from February 22 to April 26, 2022 at the Royal Canadian Legion in Liverpool.<\/p>\n

To book an appointment call 902-521-4544.<\/p>\n

E-mail:\u00a0edhalversonnews@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong>
\nTwitter: @edwardhalverson<\/strong><\/p>\n

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