Volunteers credited for successful year in free tax assistance

To the Editor:

I would like to thank all the volunteers, sites, and site personnel that helped make this tax season a success.

We completed 1,289 tax returns, up from 1,144 last year. We saved our clients $193,350.00 in tax prep fees and got them $1,499,589.00 back in refunds, up from $1,035,358.00 last year.

We did taxes at four locations and without these sites and their dedicated personnel this would not have been possible. Thank you very much for all you did.

The sites were: Crandon Public Library (77 returns), Eagle River Kalmar Community Center (342 returns), Minocqua Public Library (333 returns), and Rhinelander Oneida County ADRC (537 returns).

It was a good year with a few bumps in the road, but we did it. Hopefully everyone will return again next year.

Lastly I would like to thank all the clients we were able to help for your cooperation and patience as we worked through the kinks.

None of this would have been possible without everyone’s dedication.

Guy Bryner

AARP Tax Aide district six coordinator