Every weekend and a few nights a week, Cole volunteers to prepare taxes for people in the Lincoln during tax season. Whether on East Campus or Main Campus, you'll find Cole filter through people's life in the form of numbers, helping them figure out all of the forms the government needs.

Since he freshman year, he has done this through a program called Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA). VITA helps people who make less than $50,000 with basic tax returns. These volunteers, such as Cole, inform the people who visit them about about special tax credits, such as Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit and Credit for the Elderly or the Disabled.In Cole's case, he does this on a campus, but libraries, community centers, schools and other convenient community locations also pop up on the VITA map.

If you are interested, you can find a site near you by going to VITA's location finder.

Find out more information about the ways the IRS can help you file your taxes, visit its tax preparation site.