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Students Offer
Aid On Taxes

Graduate business students from the
University will again offer free tax service
to the residents of Charlottesville on
March 21 and 22.

The public response to the first service
offered in mid-February was so overwhelming
that the students decided to
make free tax counseling available a second
time. In February over 200 families received
help preparing 350 federal and state income tax
returns in which an estimated $25.000 worth of
tax refunds were filed.

The students, most of whom are in their
first year at the Graduate School of Business
Administration, have been working in conjunction
with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.-I.R.S.
provided the business students with
instruction packets designed for tax counseling
and a formal lecture on preparing tax forms for
others.

The Charlottesville office of Internal Revenue
estimated that the February tax service
saved the government over $5.000 by reducing
the local agents' workload. The total value of
the students' project in terms of refunds to
taxpayers and savings to the government will
have exceeded $60,000 after the March
sessions.

The project is designed primarily for the
benefit of students and families who cannot
afford tax counseling. Speaking of the tax
service, first year business student Robert H.
Willey of Charlottesville said. "The tax service
is the students' idea of a positive demonstration
of student action."

"It is their attempt to recognize their social
responsibilities and to do something constructive
within the framework of an established
system," Willey said.

The tax service will be available from 10 to
6 on Saturday and from 1 to 5 on Sunday,
March 21 and 22, at both the Salvation Army
Headquarters and Venable School in Charlottesville.