UNH students help residents with taxes, gain insight about own careers
Foster's Daily Democrat - Lauren Freedman, an accounting major at the University of New Hampshire, wasn't sure which area of accounting she wanted to pursue upon graduation, but a volunteer experience assisting low-income residents file their taxes has turned out to be just what she needed to help her make the decision.
Freedman, vice president of the UNH Accounting Students Association, will pursue a career as a tax accountant after she graduates this May thanks, in part, to her volunteer experience with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program (VITA).
More than 20 students, all accounting majors with UNH's Whittemore School of Business and Economics, have become certified tax preparers with VITA, a collaboration among the university, Internal Revenue Service, Northeast Credit Union and the Creating Assets, Savings, and Hope Coalition of Southeastern New Hampshire.