Volunteer Income
Tax Assistance

VITA at UCSB provides free tax preparation services for students and local Santa Barbara County residents who make $67,000 or less a year. Tax returns are prepared and electronically filed by IRS-certified volunteers for qualified individuals or families. Tax preparation will take place from February - April, 2025.

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Filing Taxes

If you are interested in having your taxes filed, please click the link to schedule your appointment.

Appointments can be made up to 3 hours ahead of the requested time, if it is still available.

We will take appointments FIRST, walk-ins are welcome but we won’t accept new clients 30 minutes before closing.

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Team

VITA is brought to you by the hard work and time put in by our board. The team goes above and beyond to ensure VITA is running efficiently. VITA is a subsidiary of the Undergraduate Accounting Society (UAS) at UCSB and partnered with United Way of Santa Barbara.

Jared Fang

President

Site Coordinator

Bela Holguin

VP of External Affairs

Grace Chen

VP of Internal Affairs

Lisa Oshiba

VP of PR and Marketing

Lina Correa

VP of Training and Development

Yesenia Padilla

Director of Internal Affairs

Tina Zhang

Director of Training and Development

Pawnit Kaur

Advisor

Former President of VITA

Doug Kulper

BS, MBA, JD, CPA

Faculty Advisor

Site Information

From February to mid-April, we provide free tax services on Saturdays.

Saturdays

10am-3pm

Location TBD

Thank You to United Way

Thank you to United Way of Santa Barbara County for supporting us this tax season by providing supplies, funding, and advice! Your support this year has made it possible for us to provide our services.