Don't Panic! You Got an Extension!

The tax deadline is April 18th in 2011, not April 15th, because today is Emancipation Day, and workers in the District of Columbia have today off.

The Chippewa Falls Public Library has the tax forms you need, both state and federal, and you can pick them up tomorrow until 4:30. We're closed Sunday, though, so I thought I'd better let you know in case you were thinking about waiting until then to get your forms.

AARP Donation

Above you see me accepting a check for $500.00 from Bruce Miller of AARP on behalf of the Friends of the Chippewa Falls Public Library. Mr. Miller says AARP appreciates the library making available the room to help people with their taxes and decided to show their appreciation with a donation. We, in turn, appreciate AARP making such an invaluable service available to the public and doing it here. We look forward to them being here this tax season.

Thank you!

AARP: Cha-Ching for Chippewa!

I just got some interesting figures. This year, the AARP Tax Aide Program got $193,310.00 in refunds for about 400 people who came and got help at the Chippewa Falls Public Library. True, not everyone who came got a refund, as many people were simply filing for the Homestead Credit and some ended up PAYING, but the overall net result was a "refund" of almost 200 thousand dollars for the people of Chippewa Falls. Not bad!

We've already started organizing next year's efforts and are coordinating with AARP to make sure everything runs as smoothly in 2011 as it did this year.

We hope that anyone who took part will do so again and might look into volunteering or telling a friend about the program.

Once again:

People helped--393
Total refunds--$193,310.00