UT students file taxes for low-income individuals, families through Foundation Communities

UT students file taxes for low-income individuals, families through Foundation Communities

A postdoctoral physicist and his wife, who recently immigrated from India, entered a bustling room of W-2 and 1099 forms, looking to file and understand the taxes of their new country. Enthusiastically, Christian Tinoco Lopez, a professional accounting master’s student, undertook their complex case to find them the proper referral. “It was sort of a back-and-forth battle between me and the tax code, trying to solve the puzzle,” Lopez said. “Seei…