Tax Preparation
Learn more about our tax preparation sites and if you qualify for our free tax filing.
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Do You Qualify?
If you worked in 2022 and earned $60,000 or less, we invite you to work with one of our neighborhood tax preparation sites. Our sites will help you prepare and file your taxes for free. You can also file your taxes completely online.
The Boston Tax Help Coalition wants to make sure that if you qualify for the Claim Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) you receive it. The EITC is a refundable credit for people who work. This year the EITC is worth up to $6,936.
Single Eligibility
- 3 or more children and earn $53,057 or less
- 2 or more children and earn $49,399 or less
- 1 child and earn $43,492 or less
- No children and earn $16,480 or less (and you are between the ages of 25 and 65)
Married
- 3 or more children and earn $59,187 or less
- 2 or more children and earn $55,529 or less
- 1 child and earn $49,622 or less
- No children and earn $22,610 or less (and you are between the ages of 25 and 65)
Tax Year 2021 Maximum EITC Credit
- $6,935 with three or more qualifying children
- $6,164 with two qualifying children
- $3,733 with one qualifying child
- $560 with no qualifying children
Virtual Tax Prep
If you have a smartphone you can take and send photos with, or a computer with access to a scanner, you can prepare and file your taxes online! The Boston Tax Help Coalition has teamed up with GetYourRefund.org to provide remote tax preparation, assisted by certified VITA volunteers!
What You'll Need
- Access to a smartphone or computer
- Photo ID
- Tax Documents
- Email address and phone number
How it Works
- You'll be asked a series of questions
- Upload your tax documents
- Schedule a call with a certified IRS tax preparer to be finalized
- Submit your return
What You Need
What You Need- Non-Expired Photo ID
- Social Security Card or Individual Taxpayer ID Letter (ITIN for you and everyone else who will be in your tax return, including dependents and souse)
- Legible bank account and routing numbers, if you want your refund deposited directly into your account
A copy of your 2020 federal tax return from last year (it may look like this and should say “2021” at the top)
You may have received many of these documents by mail or by email.
- All 1099 forms: 1099G (unemployment), 1099 R(pension payments), 1099INT (bank interest), 1099SSA (Social Security), 1099 or self-employment
- W2 forms from all jobs in 2022
- Proof of health insurance (Health insurance cards, HC-1099 and 1095-A. 1095-C if applicable) for taxpayer, spouse, and all dependents*
- If you received health insurance through the Affordable Care Act Marketplace or the Massachusetts Health Connector, you must bring in a 1095A
- Total Child care expenses in 2022, and child care provider’s name, address, and Employer Identification Number (EIN) or Social Security Number (SSN)
- All 1098T forms (tuition payments), college statements, receipts for school materials
- Total student loan interest paid (1098E) or lender statement (1098E) or lender statement
- Total rent paid in 2022
- Proof of ANY deductible out-of-pocket expenses (mortgage payments, property taxes, homeowner expenses, charitable receipts)
- Any mail from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue and/or from the IRS
- The IRS letter that says you received the Child Tax Credit, if you got this credit
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