Tax Info
Some KU students can procrastinate with the best of them.
A few might be considered master procrastinators. And when it comes to figuring income taxes, they are no different.
But April 15, the day of the taxman's final judgment, will be here in a flash.
Lawrente Logan, secretary at Legal Services for Students, said that Legal Services quickly was filling appointment times to help students with their taxes.
"We were booked until after April 15, but one of our attorneys came back from being on leave so we have some appointments to fill," she said.
Logan said other places where students can obtain free tax assistance include:
- Lawrence Indian Center, 1423 Haskell Ave., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
- Lawrence Penn Center, 1035 Pennsylvania St. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday
- Haskell Indian Nations University, Stidham Hall, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
The accounting club in the School of Business also offers volunteer tax assistance. The club has 27 volunteers who will be working through April 15. Annabelle Dang, Overland Park senior, is one of the volunteer coordinators for this year's effort.
Tax assistance also is available on campus at 109 Green Hall where law students volunteer to help. Volunteers will be on hand 6-8 p.m. on Thursdays and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays.
"Most of the volunteers have had our tax law courses, and some are already CPA's," said Georgann Eglinskd, associate dean for administration at the law school.
Eglinskd said that all the training materials and necessary forms were provided by the Internal Revenue Service.
International students file too
Tax Info
Even if you are new to the country, you still could owe money to Uncle Sam. International students at the University of Kansas can get help at a series of income tax workshops sponsored by the Office of International Student Services, Legal Services for Students and the Stouffer Neighborhood Association.
"There are about 1,800 international students at KU," said Lori Stockhammer, receptionist at International Student Services. "They are required to file an income tax return even if they didn't work in 1995."
Stockhammer said that the foreign students can bring their W-2 forms if they have these.
There are three more workshops available to international students needing tax help. The next workshops will be:
■ 3:30 p.m. March 19 at the International Room in the Kansas Union.
■ 7 p.m. April 8 at the Pioneer Room in the Burge Union.
■ 5 p.m. April 25 at the Malott Room in the Kansas Union.
Where to get forms:
For students needing forms, the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., serves the Lawrence community with a supply of Internal Revenue Service forms.
"We have all the commonly used forms here," said John Funk, reference librarian. "For the more specialized forms, we have reproducible copies."
Shirley Braunlich, reference assistant at the library, said it already had distributed about 2,000 Kansas state income tax forms and about 6,000 federal income tax forms.
"Nowhere else in town has the overall selection that we have here at the library," Braunlich said.
Computerized help:
Tax Info
Students with a home computer can use software that is written for income tax preparation. Some software programs include all the necessary tax forms. They also include what is known as the 1040PC form, which after completion can be faxed to the IRS.
Local stores that carry tax-help software include:
■ Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road
■ Wal-Mart, 3300 Iowa St.
■ SuperTarget, 3201 Iowa St.
■ Hammons Books and Music at 23rd and Iowa streets
■ Kmart, $108 Iowa St.
Prices range from about $20 to $70, with most in the middle range. CD-ROM versions are more expensive than disc versions.
'E Z' phone filing:
Tax Info
Students who used the 1040EZ form last year can use a new method for filing this year. it is called telephone filing, and early reports from the IRS indicate it has been popular.
Telephone filing takes only a few minutes, is a free call and is done entirely by phone. As of Feb. 16, 1.79 million returns had been filed by telephone.
Unfortunately, telephone filing is available only to those who filed 1040EZ returns last year, have not moved since then and received the necessary telephone filing form from the IRS.
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