University Daily Kansan, March 1, 1985 Page 7
CAMPUS AND AREA
Students find returns in helping with taxes
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
As the deadline for filing income tax returns approaches, professional accountants are swamped with clients' tax forms. But pot everyone can afford professional' preparation of their returns, the vice president of the KU Accounting Club said yesterday.
Twenty volunteers from the accounting club are helping low-income and elderly people in Lawrence prepare their returns. Don Wallace, the vice president, said. Wallace, Tipton senior, is the coordinator of the Voluntary Income Tax Program in Lawrence.
Bob Taylor, the accounting club president and St. Joseph, Mr. senior, said, "We give each person special, individual attention and try to get as much return as possible. It feels good can we see we are helping these people."
VITA is a federally sponsored program created in 1969. The program was designed to assist low-income students. A n d n non-English speaking people.
VOLUNTEERS FROM THE accounting club spend about two hours a week filling out forms at three local community centers. Since Feb. 18, Wallace said, the volunteers have completed about 40 returns at the Penn House, 1035 Pennsylvania St.;
Ballard Community Center, 708 Elm St.; and the Indian Center of Lawrence, 1910 Haskell Ave.
Allen Ford, professor of business and adviser for the accounting club, said all of the volunteers had taken on responsibility 699, Income Tax Accounting.
"We usually have a large number of students who plan on working for a short period of time." Ford said. "It is important that we work with them like it and work through tax season."
Susan Evan, Overland Park senior and VITA volunteer, said the program also offered practical experience.
"WE LEARN HOW to prepare different kinds of forms," she said. "At the same time, we learn to work with different kinds of people."
"My form is already filled out," he said. "But it is ridiculous to pay $20 to get my income tax form checked over."
VITA provides the volunteers with tax forms, instruction books and a toll-free number to call if questions arise.
Vinny Taylor, 717 Michigan St. said he appreciated the help
William Bradshaw, VITA regional coordinator for the Internal Revenue Service, said the volunteers did not work on business returns or business orders.
VITA volunteers in Kansas filled out 18,000 tax returns last year, he said.
Airline hires consultant, fights ruling
By United Press International
MANHATTAN — Capitol Airlines, ordered grounded last weekend, has hired a former Federal Aviation Administration official as a consultant to get the commuter airline's planes back into the air.
Charlie Morris of Liberty, Mo., who retired from the FAA after being in charge of inspection in its four-state central regional office in Kansas City, he hired James Patterson to order agency ordered Capital grounded, said Gary Cromer Jr., the airline's general manager.
Capitol serves Topeka, Lawrence, Salina, Manhattan and Kansas City, Mo.
Capitol's operating certificate was revoked Saturday, the FAA said, because it maintained inadequate pilot records and sub- weight information concerning luggage and passengers.
Cromer yesterday said Capitol has appealed the license revocation.
The FAA ordered Capitol to suspend service for one week in March 1984. At the time, the FAA said the airline had carried 20 passengers on a 19-passenger plane.
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