Apalachicola library offers free tax help
Need help filing your 2024 taxes? The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program is here to help.
The Apalachicola Margaret Key Public Library, at 80 12th Street, will serve as a site for the VITA program, which has operated for over 50 years. The site offers free tax help to people who need assistance in preparing their own tax returns. Qualifying taxpayers include people who generally make $64,000 or less.
Between Feb. 5 and April 13, IRS-certified volunteer tax preparers will be available, by appointment only, on Sundays from 12:30 to 4 p.m. and Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
To make an appointment, visit www.bit.ly/RealSenseTaxes. Or if you prefer to make an appointment by phone, call (404) 641-8080 and leave a message and a telephone number for a return call.
Please remember to bring the following with you for your appointment:
• Driver’s license or other photo I.D.
• Social Security cards for yourself and all dependents
• Bank account information for direct deposit of any refund
• W-2 from each employer (no pay stubs)
• Documentation of all other income
• Form 1095-A if you received health-care coverage through the marketplace
If filing a joint return, both spouses must be present to sign the tax return.
For more information, visit uwbb.org/vita
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.