{"id":1263,"date":"2013-02-28T12:34:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T17:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T16:03:36","slug":"easing-the-pain-of-filing-tax-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/2013\/easing-the-pain-of-filing-tax-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Easing the pain of filing tax returns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Easing the pain of filing tax returns\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The free tax clinic&nbsp;coordinated by&nbsp;fourth-year B.PAPM student Basmah Osman, which provides help to low and middle income earners in filing their tax returns, is profiled by&nbsp;reporter Vito Pilieci in today&#8217;s Ottawa Citizen.&nbsp; Basmah is a volunteer with &nbsp;the Ottawa Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) which provides free assistance on preparing tax returns for people earning less than $30,000 per year.&nbsp; Those earning more than that amount are charged a modest fee for the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The free tax clinic&nbsp;coordinated by&nbsp;fourth-year B.PAPM student Basmah Osman, which provides help to low and middle income earners in filing their tax returns, is profiled by&nbsp;reporter Vito Pilieci in today&#8217;s Ottawa Citizen.&nbsp; Basmah is a volunteer with &nbsp;the Ottawa Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) which provides free assistance on preparing tax returns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/akcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}