Hi volunteers! If you didn't see your weekly update last Friday, you didn't miss it - we had a few extra details to clarify and decided to send the email today instead. Read on for notes for this week...

VITA Filing Finale 2022

Our annual VITA Filing Finale event is just around the corner! Please save the date for Monday, April 18th.

• There will be multiple time slots available throughout the day - sign up by Friday 4/8 for the times you'd prefer to join here: VITA Filing Finale Sign-Up Form
• This year's event will be in the Truly Nolen building at the Williams Center complex located at: 432 S. Williams Blvd, Building 436 Tucson, AZ 85711. Need directions? Directions to Truly Nolen Williams Center

Taxpayer Signatures

If a taxpayer is unable to sign their return electronically and needs to come in to the United Way offices, please let them know that they can come in on Wednesday or Friday between 9am-3pm. Also, please send an email to vita@unitedwaytucson.org so we can have their paperwork ready for them when they come in.

GetYourRefund Updates

Next week, we will start to wind down virtual tax prep. Here is a rough timeline of our 'Hub Finale' that GYR volunteers can use to know when different types of tickets will start to slow -

• Tuesday 4/5: UWTSA Hub closes to new tickets
• Monday 4/11: Aim to have all QR down on Hub tickets
• Thursday 4/15: Aim to have all returns signed and ready for transmitting

Note that prior year returns and amendments can still be worked on through the end of April.

Valet Tickets

Note that tickets that come through our Valet service will not have pictures of the taxpayer's ID and SS cards uploaded. You will find this information recorded on the Valet Cover Sheet with the rest of their scanned documents. The identification verification happens with the Intake Specialist at the site, and the information on the Valet Cover Sheet should be considered verified. Please reach out to Robert if you have questions on a specific ticket.  

Logging Hours

The VITA program relies on funding from the IRS, which is directly related to the number of service hours provided by all VITA volunteers. 

Please make sure that you log ALL your volunteer hours either in the Volunteer Log available at all physical VITA sites or, for volunteers working remotely, using this link: https://forms.office.com/r/dg0XcRynNw

And don't forget - please be sure to track the hours you are working in the Hub.

*Note that we made a few tweaks to this form - volunteers now have the option of logging total hours over a date range in addition to tracking clocking in/out times on certain days. Please feel free to track your hours in the way that makes most sense for your situation on the form.