[NFEC Update] Webinar announcement-Tax Preparation for Microentrepreneurs

[Joanna Donohoe]

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An invitation for the second event in FIELD's Leading Edge Webinar
Series - 
sponsored by Bank of America

 

Is the process of preparing a Schedule C tax return the perfect tool for
introducing entrepreneurs to financial planning and asset development?
Are tax-related services a way to reach thousands or millions of
entrepreneurs? Please join us for the second installment in FIELD's new
series of free Webinars - Tax Prep Services for Microentrepreneurs -
scheduled for Wednesday, July 8, 2009 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. (EDT). The
series, funded by Bank of America, is designed to feature new strategies
for the field.

 

 

A number of microenterprise programs are now offering tax preparation
services as part of their portfolio of services. At the same time, free
tax preparation sites are assisting thousands of low-income
self-employed individuals to file taxes and claim the Earned Income Tax
Credit (EITC). The Corporation for Enterprise Development is supporting
and tracking their efforts through its Self-Employment Tax Initiative
(SETI). They are finding that these tax prep services are a highly
effective tool for engaging clients in learning about their financial
position, planning for the long term, and introducing the client to
other business and asset-building products.

 

Goals of the Webinar: 

*	To demonstrate how tax-related products and services provide an
opportunity to assist large numbers of aspiring entrepreneurs; 
*	To showcase organizations - both microenterprise programs and
free tax-prep sites - that are successfully providing tax-based products
and services to entrepreneurs; 
*	To explore how the new "Making Work Pay" tax credit created in
the federal stimulus package could provide an opportunity to reach large
numbers of entrepreneurs with tax-based products and services.

Guests: Nancy Stark, Director of Field Development, CFED; Gene Severens,
consultant, CFED; Khadijah Jones, Assistant Director, Greater
Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition/Campaign for Working Families; Earl
Boyd, Manager, Entrepreneurial Development, Philadelphia Development
Partnership. 

 

Format: The Webinar will introduce tax-prep services for
microentrepreneurs and describe the learning that has emerged from SETI.
Participants will have an opportunity to hear from a free community tax
prep site and a microenterprise program about their efforts to provide
tax prep services to entrepreneurs. The Webinar will then introduce the
new Making Work Pay tax credit, passed as part of the Recovery Act,
which provides additional tax credits to self-employed individuals, and
will discuss how this tax credit could provide an opportunity to expand
tax preparation-based services and assist large numbers of self-employed
individuals.

 

Cost: Free, thanks to the generous sponsorship of Bank of America. 

 

When: Wednesday, July 8 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. (EDT). 

 

Register: at  http://www.fieldus.org/Projects/LeadingEdge.aspx

 

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