Tax Volunteers Set Record

The VITA volunteers (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) at the Grove Public Library site set a record for preparing tax returns this year and won praise for the library from the IRS Oklahoma City office for sponsoring the site.The fifteen volunteers who manned the site three half days a week from late January to April 17 are credited with preparation of 628 tax returns of which 605 were accepted.

Nearly all of the few rejected returns were quickly corrected and re-transmitted. The figures in this article are preliminary as of May 2, 2006.

“This exceeds our last year’s output by more than 100 returns,” said Rose Stauber, Grove VITA coordinator. “It’s a great accomplishment to which all of the volunteers contributed,” she added. “We are especially proud of our low error rate. We all work very hard at providing correct returns for the taxpayers who come to us.”