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Vanessa Palma, points out that it is the first time that presents his tax return and that his refund has helped in this crisis. In the photo there appears Gustavo Torres, (behind) executive director of House of Maryland, along with Abdel Piedramartel (der).

Mitzi Mace
Washington Hispanic

In full period of the payment of taxes the state of Maryland recognized the contribution that the immigrant community realizes on having expired with his civic obligation to present his declarations on time because this way not only they are expiring with a duty but have the possibility of receiving the contributions that the others realized during the year.
The authorities made sure that with number of Social Insurance or without him the taxpayers have the faculty to receive certain credits tributaries that finally might be translated in a refund check or in diminishing to zero the hanging debt to the Service of Internal Revenues (IRS, for his initials in English).
“ In many cases the contribuyenten contribute the others in average 1.800 dollars a year and if they do not present his tax returns along all his life stop perceiving in average 80.000 dollars. In incredible that at national level 30 billion dollars should be paid the others to the federal government, money that does not come on returning to the taxpayers”, pointed out Craig Zucker, member of the team of work of the Treasurer of the State, Peter Franchot.
As part of this alliance representatives of the office of the mayoress of Baltimore, Sheila Dixon also became present to proclaim March 10 as the Day of the Realization of the Taxpaying Immigrant. The same way there was highlighted the importance of the campaign CASH of Baltimore that thinks about how to promote the financial stability of the hard-working families in the search of maximizing his resources in epoch of crisis.
This is the case of Vanessa Palma a young woman of Salvadoran origin that came to House of Maryland of Baltimore looking for work, but one benefited the same one of the free services that they offer like part of the campaign in the taxes preparation.
“ This is the first time that I do taxes together with my husband because I have be 18 years and really the refund that we receive has been of big help because I am not working and they have cut my husband away the hours”, tells Vanessa Washington Hispanic.
The campaign CASH of Baltimore (Creating Goods, Saving and Hope) is an organizations coalition without ends of lucre, of the government and business that thinks about how to promote the financial stability and a better future pair wings immigrant families of low income in Baltimore.
House of Maryland is part of this coalition and offers free services in the taxes preparation and realizes educational workshops for the taxpayers once per week why they learn on what credits they qualify and to which not.
“ Last year we serve for less 80 persons, but this year we already overcome the 200 and newly we are to half of campaign. Also we offer a course at the beginning of year where we train volunteers who want to turn into taxes trainers”, tells Abdel Piedramartel, coordinator of the program of taxes of House of Maryland. #435008111634.

On super Saturday

On March 21 the IRS has declared it like Super Saturday because not only he will attend in 250 offices at national level in extraordinary schedule of 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. but it will offer free services to those persons who have Gained less than 42.000 dollars during 2008.
This service benefits the persons who work because they will not have to lose a weekday to answer to his questions. Specialists of the IRS also will help with commission in cases of bankruptcy and will help with payment plans for taxpayers those due to the financial crisis that crosses the country not to can expire with the obligation to pay his taxes for the received income.

With ITIN or number of Social Insurance

Between the most common tributary credits to which the taxpayers apply they are: The credit for revenue to the work (EITC), but only they qualify those who have a number of valid Social Insurance and that have gained less than 41,646 dollars in 2008.
But, also the credits are for which a number of Social Insurance is not needed because with only the called number of taxpayer or ITIN they can be requested.
Between they are the credit for child who can climb up to 1.000 dollars.
In case of the Mexicans they can claim like clerks his children who are in his country.
“ The parents with ITIN yes can claim the credit for son, any time the children have also his number of ITIN or number of Social Insurance. Also it is necessary to be considered that the only one of the parents they can claim them in the declaration.
In this sense we recommend the married persons to present his taxes like couple”, he told to Washington Hispanic, Sara Eguren, spokesman of the IRS.
The persons who do not have number of Social Insurance also can request the credit for the interest that they pay if it is that they are proprietary, the student's credit, if it is that they pay for the care of a child and the credit for 8.000 dollars for the first owners. For more information in Spanish visit the Internet page www.irs.gov