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Contact a Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) in New York

 

If you are a low income taxpayer who needs assistance in resolving tax disputes with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and you cannot afford representation, or if you speak English as a second language and need help understanding your taxpayer rights and responsibilities, you may qualify for help from a Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) that provides free or nominal cost assistance.

Low Income Taxpayer Clinics represent low income taxpayers before the IRS and assist taxpayers in audits, appeals and collection disputes. LITCs can also help taxpayers respond to IRS notices and correct account problems.

Although LITCs receive partial funding from the IRS, LITCs, their employees, and their volunteers are completely independent of the federal government. These clinics are operated by nonprofit organizations or academic institutions.

This is not a recommendation by the IRS that you retain a Low Income Taxpayer Clinic or other similar organization to represent you before the IRS.

Each clinic independently decides if you meet the income eligibility guidelines and other criteria before it agrees to represent you. See the "Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Income Eligibility Guidelines".

The federally-funded clinics for the state selected are listed below.


 Low Income Taxpayer Clinics (LITCs) 

State City Organization

Phone                

Type of Clinic Languages Served 
NY Albany

Albany Law School
www.albanylaw.edu

518-445-2328 Controversy English/As needed
through interpreter services
NY Brooklyn Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Legal Services Corp. 718-636-1155 Controversy

English/Spanish/
Creole/Chinese/French

NY Rochester

Volunteer Legal Services Project of Monroe County, Inc.
www.vlsprochester.org

585-232-3051 ESL

English/Spanish/French
American Sign Language

NY Buffalo

Erie County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project , Inc.
www.ecbavlp.org

800-229-6198 Controversy English/Spanish
NY New York Fordham University 212-636-7353 Controversy English/Spanish
NY New York

The Legal Aid Society
www.legal-aid.org

212-426-3013 Controversy/ESL English/Spanish/
Mandarin/Chinese
NY Bronx

Legal Services NYC-Bronx
www.bronx.legalservicesnyc.org

718-928-3700 Controversy English/Spanish/Others
through interpreter services
NY Jamaica

Queens Legal Services
www.queenslegalservices.org

347-592-2178 Controversy/ESL

All languages through
interpreter services

NY Brooklyn

South Brooklyn Legal Services, Inc.
www.sbls.org

718-237-5528 Controversy/ESL English/Spanish/Creole/
American Sign Language/
Others through interpreter
services
NY Rochester

Pathstone, Inc.
www.pathstone.org

585-340-3300 800-888-6770

Controversy/ESL English/Spanish
NY Syracuse

Syracuse University
www.law.syr.edu

315-443-4582 Controversy English
NY Elmsford Westchester Community Opportunity Program, Inc. 914-592-5600 x113 ESL English/Spanish
 


Page Last Reviewed or Updated: April 01, 2011