The AARP offers free tax counseling every year at the Windsor Locks Senior Center on Oak Street. This service is available for eligible elderly and lower and middle income taxpayers during February, March, and April. Hour-long appointments may be scheduled for Tuesdays between 10:00 a.m and 4:00 p.m. by calling Donna LeBlanc at the Senior Center (860-627-1425). You may contact Connecticut AARP for information on other Tax-Aid locations in our state. No tax help is available at the library. Members of the library's staff are NOT trained to advise you on any matters concerning your tax returns or the appropriate tax forms to use.

For information on the American Recovery and Reinvestment ACT of 2009 and how it might affect your tax return, read through Catch a Break, an informational brochure prepared by the IRS.

Free electronic tax filing is available for taxpayers with 2009 gross income less than $57,000 through the IRS FreeFile Page. Taxpayers with incomes more than $57,000 will find information about e-filing at IRS.gov/efile.

The U.S. Post Office no longer stocks tax forms. As a service to our patrons, the Windsor Locks Public Library is happy to provide access to both State and Federal tax forms and instructions. During the months of January, February, and March the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and the CT Department of Revenue Services send us many of the most requested forms and instruction booklets for distribution to our patrons. These are available free of charge at the library. Due to space constraints we are unable to provide paper copies of every form that might be requested, so we also offer reproducible copies of most U.S. and State tax forms. These may be copied in the library for $ .20 per page.

All of the State and Federal tax forms and instructions are also available online and may be printed out at home or in the library. Click on the links below for complete listings of state and federal forms. We charge $ .10 per page for printing to help offset the cost of ink and toner.

Many of these forms are in PDF (portable document) format, and accessing them requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader. This software may be downloaded and installed on your home computer for free from Adobe Systems .

Current and prior years' federal tax forms and information may be accessed at the IRS Forms and Publications page.

Forms and instructions for the State of Connecticut are available at the CT Department of Revenue Services.

Current year forms and instructions for any state in the U.S. can be downloaded from Federation of Tax Administrators. If you need a tax lawyer or have legal questions related to your tax filings, FindLaw.com may provide some helpful resources.

Please remember that although your library staff is willing and able to help you locate any tax forms or instructions that you might need, we are not trained to answer specific questions about your tax returns or to recommend forms. Consult your a trained tax preparer for information about your returns.

Updated 4-7-2010