My Nonprofit Reviews

My name is Vinuta R, and I am an intern at the United Way of Central Jersey for the VITA Tax Program 2023 Summer. I learned about the VITA Summer Internship program through my high school DECA advisor, as I am interested in the business field and wanted to get hands on experience working with tax returns and professionals. Through this internship, I gained experience through taking a certification course to ensure that I am ready to prepare tax returns for the general public, which includes figuring out how to file their information and documents as well as keeping their information secured and private. A couple of the key tax law concepts include filing status, the taxpayer's gross income, and ensuring that they have all necessary documents and have completed their intake form. These are a couple examples of how we can ensure that they have a secured form of income, and also assist us to file their tax returns. The target population of the clients whose returns I helped prepare at the VITA site include lower income and elderly individuals. We filed their tax returns for free and ensured that they did not have any fees or penalties next tax year. Through doing intakes, client reviews, and tax returns and preparation, I have definitely taken away a lot of new information about the IRS, how to file taxes, and how the realm of accounting works. I really enjoyed this internship, and definitely look forward to helping out every tax year.