{"id":60750,"date":"2025-12-03T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=60750"},"modified":"2025-12-03T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:30:00","slug":"immediate-need-for-cvitp-volunteers-and-host-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=60750","title":{"rendered":"Immediate need for CVITP volunteers and host organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56501&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HALIFAX:<\/strong> This past year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/revenue-agency\/services\/tax\/individuals\/community-volunteer-income-tax-program.html?utm_source=Mailbox&amp;utm_medium=External_Email&amp;utm_campaign=No_Signature_Corporate_item+ABSB+CVITP&amp;utm_content=2022-12-12_0546&amp;utm_term=R_SDM_E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Community Volunteer Income Tax Program<\/a> (CVITP) has helped 39,980<sup>1<strong>,2,3,4<\/strong><\/sup>\u00a0 individuals in Nova Scotia receive $93,489,000 in tax refunds, credits and benefit payments. ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, many eligible people missed out on money that could have made a real difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CVTIP wants to change that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CVITP is a collaboration between the Canada Revenue Agency, community organizations and their dedicated volunteers who offer free tax filing to people with modest incomes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Filing taxes helps individuals access important benefits\u2014like the monthly, tax-free Canada Child Benefit\u2014and puts money back in their pockets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56179&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>They&#8217;re asking for your support again this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While volunteer and host organization recruitment is needed province-wide, they have an immediate need in the following communities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Halifax Regional Municipality, Sydney, North Sydney, Antigonish, Truro, Bridgewater, Amherst, Yarmouth, Sydney, New Waterford, Port Hawkesbury, Eskasoni First Nation and Membertou First Nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also a particular need for French-speaking volunteers in Cheticamp, Isle Madame and Argyle\/Clare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/revenue-agency\/services\/tax\/individuals\/community-volunteer-income-tax-program.html\">https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/revenue-agency\/services\/tax\/individuals\/community-volunteer-income-tax-program.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56526&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56530&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX: This past year, the Community Volunteer Income Tax Program (CVITP) has helped 39,9801,2,3,4\u00a0 individuals in Nova Scotia receive $93,489,000 in tax refunds, credits and benefit payments. ] Still, many eligible people missed out on money that could have made a real difference. The CVTIP wants to change that. The CVITP is a collaboration between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[4747,6299,4166,6301,48,1077,182],"class_list":["post-60750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-community-volunteer-income-tax-program","tag-cvitp","tag-gst","tag-income-tax","tag-n-s","tag-nova-scotia","tag-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}