New Resources: National Community Tax Coalition

Posted by on January 21, 2005

[ed note: To read about PHENND’s tax initiative, visit: http://www.upenn.edu/ccp/PHENND/initiatives/finoutreach.html]

New web-based resources from the National Community Tax Coalition

The Coalition has made several important and useful resources available nationally through its web site in the last few weeks. Some of these come from the Center for Economic Progress, some from affiliates of the Coalition. They will help you as you set up your sites right now!

The most exciting new feature is the capacity to search the site for over 300 documents

Search
Once you are logged in to the Resource Library, you can use the Google search engine to search resources on topics.

EITC Toolkit
This resource from the National League of Cities offers a wide array of materials and resources to help municipal leaders to maximize the potential impact of the EITC. It includes a variety of city examples, key roles for city officials, and advice from leaders who have already engaged in similar efforts. It can be found in the Building Coalition section.

Asset Building Conference materials
EITC Carolinas – Strategies for Linking Your Tax Campaigns to Asset Building It can be found in the Financial Education section.

EITC Data by Zip Code, State, County and City
Preliminary Tax Year 2002 data from The Brookings Institute. It can be found in the Outreach section.

Recorded Tax Season hotline script – English & Spanish
Lists free tax preparation site location. It can be found in the Outreach section.

RALs Flyer
Informational Flyer on Refund Anticipation Loans (RALs) or Rapid Refunds. It can be found in the Outreach Section.

ITIN Paper – Operational Guide
The IRS Individual Taxpayer Identification Number: An Operational Guide to the ITIN Paper Program. It can be found in the Serving Immigrants section.

Send us your resources

If you have new tools, documents, or materials you want to share, or updates to documents already on our site, send them to us.

Please also include a 2 sentence description we can use as to introduce the resource on our website: (1) try to explain the utility of the resource; and( 2) state who is providing it. It will also help us if you suggest an appropriate page/location on our website.

If a document comes to us as a Word or Excel document, we will post it to the website in that format. This is appropriate if you want users to be able to modify the document. If you want us to post the file as PDF, either send it as such, or let us know that we should convert it to one. PDF is suitable for documents you don’t want to be modifiable by the user.

Please email your materials to Don Wedd, Member Services Manager for the National Community Tax Coalition, dwedd@centerforprogress.org