The Summit Panorama Newsletter - Magazine - Page 4
HELPING
HANDS
Couple gives back to community
J
im Gutzwiller feels the tax season crunch. For the last
17 years, the retired engineer has volunteered to prepare
returns for AARP members.
“My wife, Nancy, saw an ad in the AARP magazine and said,
‘Hey, you would be good at this,’” Jim said.
For 10 years, Jim spent two days weekly at Bedford Central
Library helping members with tax returns. He completed four
or five a day.
“I was doing my own taxes so I didn’t feel like it was going to be
a big step,” Jim said.
He faced a learning curve when he started preparing other
returns. “There are a lot of things you don’t think about when
you do your own taxes, but when you have to do other people’s
taxes, there are a lot of different things that are going on.”
For the last seven years, Jim, who lives in a Lakeside Cottage,
has helped Summit residents through the AARP program.
AARP provides a work computer and The Summit provides a
hot spot to keep data secure.
