Memo to all EITC campaigns: Dump Bank of America!

Mike Taibbi at Rolling Stone is one of the few journalists who is willing to write the truth about this organization. And he’s been following them for a long time. The colossal financial damage they have done to this country is just beyond comprehension. And we’re still putting up with it. What a train wreck. [...]

EITC campaigns and the Trust Horizon

Ed. Note: Timely article. I worked for years on building these relationships for the Boston EITC campaign. Sad to see so much of it being destroyed by the current bureaucratic management. We’ll need to reset campaigns like this and throughout the country on a very different (local) level if we’re going to make it through [...]

Peering Into the Future

Summer is over and so is our collective fantasy that the US economy is ever going to return to “normal”. My goal in the next few months is to provide readers of this blog with some radically different viewpoints about where we are going as a society and how community groups and individual volunteers can [...]

Free Tax Preparation Outreach: A Missed Opportunity

This past week I accompanied a group of Boston area immigrants and refugees to the Spring Job Fair at Goodwill in Roxbury. I’ll let the photograph describe the current state of our “economic recovery.” As a 2011 Boston EITC tax site, you might assume that the site coordinator or someone at Goodwill would have used [...]

Where’s the (EITC) party? (Part 1)

March 17, 2011 New page EITC Campaigns in the New England Region The next four weeks might seem like an eternity as the 2011 Boston EITC campaign stumbles to its conclusion. Everyone involved is cranky and exhausted and the last thing most people are thinking about is how to organize an end-of-year celebration to thank [...]

Boston EITC Kickoff 2011: Too Little Too Late

You’d never know from the sad little ceremony at the Mission Hill Tax site in Roxbury last week that the 10th Anniversary of the Boston EITC Campaign was anything worth noticing. Well folks, it IS a big deal, but Mimi Turchinetz ( the Boston EITC Director who is conspicuously absent from the photo op) and [...]

Best and Worst Free Tax Sites in Boston (Update) –New Boston Tax Help Podcast

Listen to Craig’s recommendations for finding the best free tax preparation sites in Boston and avoiding a few sites which appear to be ” all hat and no cattle.” Click here to view the list of Boston EITC tax sites open on Saturday Listen to the Boston Tax Help Podcast Boston Tax Help Podcast blog [...]

Taxpayers still having difficulty getting appointments at Boston EITC tax sites

Now we’re in the middle of tax season 2011 and I’m becoming more and more concerned that too many taxpayers can’t find a local tax site to prepare their taxes without an unusual amount of time and energy. Here is a sample of two emails that I recently received. Although I’m personally working to help [...]

Boston EITC Tax Sites: The short list of outdated information

To view the most up-to-date site information about free tax sites in Boston and Massachusetts, click here Here is the latest news about Boston EITC tax sites as of 2.14.2011 (listed by tax site) Boston Chinatown Center Next available appointment Feb. 26th Morgan Memorial Goodwill Appointment only Wednesday and Thursday 2pm to 7pm 617-536-1888 x [...]

New Boston Tax Help Podcast: Contacting your VITA tax site in 2011

Craig Far discusses how VITA customers can achieve the quickest result by calling their local tax site ahead of time to confirm site hours as well as any other critical information during the current 2011 tax season. Listen to the Boston Tax Help Podcast. Visit the Boston Tax Help Podcast website