{"id":26876,"date":"2019-02-16T14:17:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T20:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=26876"},"modified":"2019-02-16T14:17:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T20:17:42","slug":"apsu-college-of-business-offers-free-tax-prep-to-qualifying-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2019\/02\/16\/apsu-college-of-business-offers-free-tax-prep-to-qualifying-individuals\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU College of Business offers free tax prep to qualifying individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Austin Peay State University (APSU)<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324279\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-APSU.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" width=\"250\" height=\"64\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The Austin Peay State University College of Business is working to make tax season a little less stressful this year by providing free tax preparation through its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_444606\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APSU-College-of-Business-offers-free-tax-prep-to-qualifying-individuals-1.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-444606\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-444606\" title=\"Austin Peay State University College of Business offers free tax preparation.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APSU-College-of-Business-offers-free-tax-prep-to-qualifying-individuals-1-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University College of Business offers free tax preparation.\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-444606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin Peay State University College of Business offers free tax preparation.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The program is open to anyone with an annual income of $55,000 or less, individuals with disabilities or community members with limited English skills.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Peay business students went through vigorous training \u2013 including approximately 32 tax-training modules and several practice returns \u2013 and passed three certification exams with a score of 80 percent or higher to become IRS-certified volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>Appointments can be made by calling 931.221.6590, but walk-ins are welcome. The VITA program will be housed in the APSU Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement, 322 Home Avenue, and students will offer tax preparation from 1:00pm-7:00pm Tuesday and Wednesday, 1:00pm-4:00pm on Thursdays and 10:00am-4:00pm on Saturdays.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_444607\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APSU-College-of-Business-offers-free-tax-prep-to-qualifying-individuals-2.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-444607\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-444607\" title=\"Austin Peay State University business students to provide free tax preparation through its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/APSU-College-of-Business-offers-free-tax-prep-to-qualifying-individuals-2-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University business students to provide free tax preparation through its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-444607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin Peay State University business students to provide free tax preparation through its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The VITA program will remain open (except for Saturday, March 10th) until the final tax-filing day on April 10th.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with questions may either stop by the program site during operating hours or email Jennifer D. Thayer, assistant professor of business, at <a href=\"mailto:thayerj@aspu.edu\">thayerj@aspu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Peay State University (APSU) Clarksville, TN &#8211; The Austin Peay State University College of Business is working to make tax season a little less stressful this year by providing free tax preparation through its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,24595,4640,262,512,825,10074,9199,33132,33133,33131,6348],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6Zu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26877,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26876\/revisions\/26877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}