{"id":1253,"date":"2014-01-16T16:29:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T00:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2014-01-16T16:29:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T00:29:21","slug":"vita-is-back-free-tax-preparation-at-skyline-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/vita-is-back-free-tax-preparation-at-skyline-college\/","title":{"rendered":"VITA is Back! Free Tax Preparation at Skyline College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1254 alignleft\" alt=\"TY 2013 - VITA Flyer 2\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/01\/TY-2013-VITA-Flyer-2-231x300.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" \/>SparkPoint at Skyline College and the Business Division, in partnership with <em>Earn it! Keep it! Save it!<\/em>, are excited to announce free income tax preparation assistance for students, faculty, staff and community members (households that earned less than $52,000 in 2013).<\/p>\n<p>Taxes will be prepared every Saturday, February 1 to Saturday, March 29, 2014 (except February 15), from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Building 8, Room 8209. Please call SparkPoint at Skyline College at (650) 738-7035 to make an appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, student volunteers from Instructor John Miller\u2019s Volunteer Income Tax Preparation (VITA) class were able to complete over 280 tax returns, resulting in over $297,000 being returned to the community. We expect to complete even more returns this year, so book your appointment today!<\/p>\n<p>For more information about VITA, please visit <a title=\"Sparkpoint\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skylinecollege.edu\/sparkpoint\/services\/FreeTaxPreparationAssistance.php\" target=\"_blank\">Sparkpoint<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on SparkPoint at Skyline College, please visit the SparkPoint <a title=\"Sparkpoint\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skylinecollege.edu\/sparkpoint\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>\u00a0or contact Dr. William Watson, Director at <a href=\"mailto:william.watson@smccd.edu.\">william.watson@smccd.edu.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sparkpoint Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SparkPointSkyline\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1255 aligncenter\" alt=\"Like us on FaceBook[2]\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/01\/Like-us-on-FaceBook2-300x113.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"79\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Article and Photo by\u00a0Adolfo Leiva.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SparkPoint at Skyline College and the Business Division, in partnership with Earn it! Keep it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}