Georgiy Abdurahmanov recently gave Staten Islander Susan Cangely some good news. She’s going to get back more than $1,300 this year.

“I almost fell off the chair,” Cangely said. “I’m getting back like five times more than what I got back last year?” 

“I’m going to pay back bills and maybe be able to catch up a little bit,” she added.

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Georgiy Abdurahmanov is a second-year volunteer tax preparer

He has helped more than 100 clients this tax season

Abdurahmanov recently graduated with a degree in accounting and is hoping to work at a nonprofit organization

It was another day of volunteering for Abdurahmanov, who is a tax preparer at Project Hospitality on Staten Island.

“I’m just happy that I did it and that’s how it came out,” Abdurahmanov said. “And now I’m just hoping that review goes by.” 

“You have people coming in with, like, $19,000, adjusted gross income that’s, you know, and then you get them a refund, that’s, a total of $5,000 that, you know, that’s going to help them,” he added.

The Richmond resident found accounting in college. He was handling financials for his student club, Engineers Without Borders — and he was enjoying it.

“Anytime I spoke to someone about it, they were like ‘George, you’re describing accounting work. You’re describing cost management. You’re describing depreciation of things,'” he said.

Eager to get hands-on experience in the field, Abdurahmanov became a volunteer tax preparer. He is now at Project Hospitality three times a week to prepare returns.

Abdurahmanov is typically the first of two preparers to work on client paperwork. He has helped more than 100 clients this year alone.

“Getting someone a refund that’s almost a tenth or, like, a fifth of what they earned throughout the year feels incredible,” Abdurahmanov said.

Abdurahmanov graduated with his bachelor’s in accounting in January. He is now hoping to become an accountant for a nonprofit organization. 

“It’s the thing I think most people, they want to, help make the world a better place,” Abdurahmanov said. “I fall into that camp.”

For helping others get every dollar and cent out of their tax returns, Georgiy Abdurahmanov is our New Yorker of the Week.