Media ContactLisa Ramirez, Communications Director, lramirez@mylegalaid.org
Historically, state tax work by the unit was limited to cases connected to an IRS case with conditions — the cases had to stem from the same IRS tax issue and had to occur in the same year. This is no longer the case. Today, the unit’s state cases only need to fall within the project’s priority areas and do not need to be connected to a federal case.
Tax Attorney Hannah Stephan says her work is not tedious, dry or boring. Rather, she sees tax issues as “puzzles to be solved and so very interesting!”
When the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) started distributing Economic Impact Payments in 2020, it wasn’t easy for millions who didn’t have a bank account on file with the IRS. Legal Aid’s Low Income Tax Clinic worked with community organizers to remove barriers and connect people with payments.
Legal Aid’s Low Income Tax Clinic (LITC) is the only organization in the state guiding low-income people through the IRS’s non-filer form to receive economic stimulus payments.
Jamila received a $7000 tax deficiency from the IRS. Legal Aid’s East African Community Legal Clinic partnered with Isuroon to file a petition with tax court, which determined she had no tax debt.
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