Stay Informed!

By Lauren Williams on 10/04/2011 @ 12:00 PM

Tags: Entrepreneurship

In 2010, with SETI’s support, CAMEO’s California Self-Employment Tax Initiative program awarded grants to six microenterprise development organizations in the state committed to delivering free, comprehensive business tax and planning assistance. This initiative was developed as a three year demonstration project, ending in 2009, but was continued through 2011 with support from CFED and Citi. All six partners operate their own Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites where, after preparing returns for self-employed filers, they distributed outreach and informational materials referring clients to the microenterprise development services they offer and gathered data to better understand the low-income self-employed market in California. The State Microenterprise Referral Partnership Model Data Snapshot provides a quick look into the clients served by and organizations participating in the California Self-Employment Tax Initiative work during the 2011 tax season.

What’s next for SETI in California?
While the California Self-Employment Tax Initiative—grant funding and technical assistance passed through CAMEO—has come to a close this year, SETI will still work in the state of California with two key partners during the 2011 tax year. First, the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC), located in Oakland, CA, was one of the twelve pilot sites participating in the Schedule C VITA Pilot this year and will continue to participate in the pilot and offer Schedule C tax assistance for the coming tax year as well.

Also, we recently began a partnership with Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA), which operates four Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites in San Francisco—including self-employment tax assistance—in addition to offering workshops and one-on-one counseling on homeownership, foreclosure, financial education, workforce development and business development. This year, SETI and MEDA will work together to bundle essential financial education, financial products, business development and workforce development services through the gateway of free tax preparation. We will collect research on best practices in tax preparation and integrated service delivery to inform the design of an integrated service delivery pilot to be launched with the 2012 tax season at MEDA, and this integrated service delivery approach will be shared with all VITA sites in San Francisco. As part of this partnership, SETI will also create and implement an impact evaluation plan that identifies key outcome measures and indicators of success for this integrated service delivery approach.

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