Tax Information

Below you'll find an electronic newsletter published by the World Institute on Disability (WID), as well as other valuable tax information resources, all forwarded by the Great Lakes ADA and Accessible IT Center for your information. The information may save money for wage-earners with disabilities.

Equity e-newsletter: January 2005
Disability and Asset Building Communities Working Together
http://www.wid.org/equity

Making Tax Time Pay for People with Disabilities
http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity

The Tax Facts Solution: The Missing Link in Building Economic Security for People with Disabilities http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity&sub=200501&topic=fa
Johnette Hartnett, Vice President with the NCB Development Corporation, and researcher at the Law, Health Policy & Disability Center, eloquentlyprovides a personal narrative that frames the details of the Tax Facts Campaign and the essential role that it plays in the ability for people withdisabilities to build assets.

Tax Laws and Asset Accumulation for People with Disabilities http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity&sub=200501&topic=ss
Steven Mendelsohn, Tax Policy Expert, Law, Health Policy & Disability Center, University of Iowa College of Law, briefly describes tax credits for individuals with disabilities and businesses that employ and serve people with disabilities.

Market of Millions: Microenterprise Services for Entrepreneurs with Disabilities
On-line Bookstore at http://www.microenterpriseworks.org/links/bookstore/index.htm
The Association for Enterprise Opportunity, in conjunction with The Abilities Fund, has developed a training manual designed to give micro-enterprise development organizations an introduction to the potential of extending services to entrepreneurs with disabilities. To order a copy, visit the AEO

An EITC Success Story: Helping People with Disabilities Earn & Save http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity&sub=200501&topic=pm
Judy Stengel, Internal Revenue Service, Wichita,KS, illustrates what initiative and a little ingenuity can do to help low-income people with disabilities make money by filing for the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Advocating for Economic Equality
http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity&sub=200501&topic=profile
Richard Keeling's work for the Stakeholder Partnerships, Education & Communication (SPEC), at the IRS is personal. Being disabled himself since 1975; he understands the need for people with disabilities to take advantage of valuable tax credits.

Tip Of The Month:
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Fact Sheet
http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity&sub=200501&topic=tm
A simple fact sheet about the refundable tax credit that can serve as a beginning for people with disabilities to build asset

Where can I find a free Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) site in my
area? http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity&sub=200501&topic=responds

Learning & Networking Resources:
http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity-resource#current
Informative websites of interest to both communities

Conferences & Events
http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=conf

World Institute on Disability (WID) is a non-profit public policy center dedicated to the promotion of independence and full inclusion in society of people with disabilities. WID's Access to Assets (ATA) program provides training and technical assistance to asset building and disability organizations seeking to improve the inclusion of people with disabilities in poverty reduction programs. In addition, ATA provides information and referral services to individuals with disabilities and conducts federal and state policy analysis on related issues.

New Toll-Free Technical Assistance Hotline:
1-866-723-1201
Do you have questions about asset building strategies or serving people with disabilities? Please contact Megan O'Neil, World Institute on Disability, Access to Assets Project Coordinator, megan@wid.org

Equity is a publication of World Institute on Disability's Access to Assets Program and is supported by the Asset Accumulation and Tax Policy Project.

The Asset Accumulation and Tax Policy Project (AATPP)
http://disability.law.uiowa.edu/lhpdc/projects/assetdevtaxpol.html
A partnership of The Law, Health Policy, and Disability Center at the University of Iowa College of Law, in collaboration with Southern New Hampshire University School of Community Economic Development, the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions, the World Institute on Disability, and the National Cooperative Bank Development Corporation. AATPP is 100 percent funded by U.S. Department of Education grant #H133A031732. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIDRR or University of Iowa.

Equity is also generously funded by the J.W. and Ida M. Jameson Foundation and the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation.