Taxes at AARP

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Lyft took my to the Sojourner House on North 9th and Walnut, where I checked in with my completed documents that I had downloaded.

There were many people waiting in the hallway.

A woman looked my papers over and said that they were completed.  I sat in the hallway with the rest of the people, the majority of whom looked needy.  I went back to the woman and asked if this service was for the needy, and she said that there was no income discrimination; I was perfectly fine to get my taxes done here.

When I was called I entered a room with four desks with computers on each side.  A volunteer at a desk on the right side of the room entered my data that took glacially long, at least forty-five minutes.  When he was finished, I went in the hall and waited for someone to verify his figures.

After a short wait, I was directed to a woman at a desk on the left side of the room.  As she went over the information, she noticed that one or my donations was to Kinship.  She said that she was affiliated with Kinship, and was also a member of my parish.  She printed my documents and went over the calculations.  I noticed that only $2000 was deducted for Kinship; I said that there was a total of $7000 of qualified contributions.  She did not notice that the other pages were stapled together.  She corrected the forms and reprinted them.

Do I want to do this again?

Lyft took me back home.  

Bob Koebert has been getting his taxes done by AARP for the past three years, and it does not take so long.  Other SRS residents take advantage of this service also. 

I'm sure in the future it would go faster since my data could be retrieved.