 Internal Revenue Service IRS Tax News, IRS Accepting Applications for the VITA, the VITA and the TCE Grants in May, which is great, Viva LaVita Grants, IR2022-97, April 29, 2022 Washington. The Internal Revenue Service is Accepting Applications for the Tax Counseling for the elderly, the TCE and the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, the VITA, the VITA grant programs, which will allow some organizations to apply for annual funding for up to three years. Grants.gov, Grants.gov, there's a link to that here. We'll accept applications beginning May 1 through May 31, 2022 for the TCE and the VITA grant opportunities. Application packages and guidelines for 2022, there's a link to that here, are now available on the IRS website. The IRS in the past year awarded 37 TCE grantees, $11 million and 300 VITA, the VITA grants, for $25 million. Last year, the two grant programs filed nearly 1.6 million returns nationwide. The IRS established the TCE program in 1978 to provide tax counseling and return preparation to persons aged 60 or older, and to give training and teachable assistance to the volunteers who provide free federal income tax assistance within elderly communities across the nation. For more information on the TCE program, visit the IRS's TCE website. There's a link to the IRS's TCE website here. If you want to click on it, then it'll probably take you there. The VITA grant program was established in 2007 to supplement the VITA program created in 1969. VITA, the VITA program's free tax filing assistance to underserved communities. The grant program enables the VITA to extend these services to underserved populations in hardest to reach, urban and non-urban areas, increase the capacity of targeted taxpayers to file returns electronically, enhance training and volunteers, and improve the accuracy rate of returns prepared at VITA sites. More information on the VITA grant program is available at IRS VITA grant program. There's a link to that here. There'll be a link to this other stuff here, all that other stuff that we said there was a link to. That's here too. And there'll be a link to this in the description.