Walmart & Taxes
Walmart housed a program that did tax returns for low and moderate income tax payers. But not any more:
After nearly 10 years hosting a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance site inside its Walker Springs location, the discount chain has informed VITA tax preparers to find somewhere else to do free tax returns for low- and moderate-income taxpayers.
Jackson Hewitt Tax Services, a for-profit tax preparer, has a contract with Wal-Mart to sell its services at the store and said the Internal Revenue Service-sponsored VITA program was competing for customers in violation of that contract.
