Community Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Matching Grant Program Availability of Application Packages

SUMMARY: This document provides notice of the availability of application packages for the 2009 Community Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Matching Grant Program.DATES: Application packages are available from the IRS at this time. The deadline for submitting an application package to the IRS for the 2009 Community Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Matching Grant Program is September 2, 2008. Authority for the Community Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Matching Grant Program is contained in the 2008 Treasury Appropriations Act enacted on December 26, 2007 (Pub. L. 110-161). Specifically, the appropriations language states: ``The program shall provide direct funds to enable VITA programs to extend services to underserved populations and hardest-to-reach areas, both urban and non-urban, as well as to increase the capacity to file returns electronically, heighten quality control, enhance training of volunteers, and significantly improve the accuracy rate of returns prepared by VITA sites.''