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Contact a Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) in California

 

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 
CA Fresno

Central California Legal Services, Inc.
www.centralcallegal.org

559-570-1200
800-675-8001

Controversy/ESL

English/Spanish/Hmong/Lao

CA Orange Chapman University

877-242-7529
714-628-2535

Controversy

English/Spanish/Vietnamese/
Others through interpreter services

CA San Francisco

Asian Pacific Islanders Legal Outreach
www.apilegaloutreach.org

415-567-6255 Controversy/ ESL

English/ Chinese / Vietnamese/
Japanese/ Tagalog / Korean/
Others through interpreter services

CA San Francisco

Chinese Newcomers Service Center
www.chinesenewcomers.org

415-421-2111 ext.691 Controversy/ ESL

English/Cantonese/ Mandarin/Chinese

CA San Francisco

Homeless Prenatal Program LITC
www.homelessprenatal.org

415-546-6756 x363

Controversy/ ESL

English/Spanish

CA San Francisco San Francisco Bar Association
Volunteer Legal Services Program
415-989-1616 Controversy English
CA Los Angeles

HIV/AIDS Legal Services Alliance (HALSA)
www.halsaservices.org


866-953-1293
213-637-1690

Controversy English/Spanish/American Sign Language
CA Northridge

The Bookstein Tax Clinic
www.csun.edu

818-677-3600 Controversy/ ESL English/Spanish
CA Santa Ana Legal Aid Society of Orange County

800-834-5001
714-571-5200

Controversy/ ESL

English/Farsi/Spanish/Vietnamese/
Korean/Mandarin/
Others through interpreter service

CA San Diego Home Start, Inc. 619-229-3660 ESL Aramaic/Arabic/Amharic/
Chaldean/Spanish/Tigrinya/
Russian/Vietnamese
CA San Diego

Legal Aid Society of San Diego, Inc.
www.lassd.org

877-534-2524

Controversy

English/ Spanish/ Russian/ French/
German/Farsi/Arabic/ Tagalog/
Korean/ Vietnamese/Chinese/ Laotian

CA San Diego University of San Diego Tax Clinic 619-260-7470 Controversy/ESL  English/Spanish
CA

 

San Luis Obispo

 

California Polytechnic State University 877-318-6772 Controversy/ ESL English/Spanish/
Others through interpreter services
 


Page Last Reviewed or Updated: March 31, 2011