{"id":218065,"date":"2026-03-24T13:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/218065\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:35:08","slug":"free-virtual-tax-credit-class-helps-north-texans-find-refunds-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/218065\/","title":{"rendered":"Free virtual tax credit class helps North Texans find refunds \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ascend Dallas is helping North Texans navigate the tax return process by hosting a free virtual Tax Credit Education class on March 31 at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The session is open to the public and helps individuals identify tax credits that could put more money back in their pockets.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS estimates that 1 in 5 eligible taxpayers miss out on the Earned Income Tax Credit each year, leaving thousands of dollars unclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In North Texas, those most likely to leave money on the table include single parents, individuals working part-time, and people who didn&#8217;t file taxes last year,&#8221; Ascend Dallas CEO Kate Rose Marquez said.<\/p>\n<p>Marquez said many North Texans may be missing refunds ranging from $1,500 to $8,000 simply because they do not realize they qualify for valuable tax credits.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ascenddallas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">online class<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ascenddallas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u00a0<\/a>will be offered in English and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit&#8217;s mission is to empower women, fight poverty, and impact generations through a tailored suite of confidence- and skill-building services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ascend Dallas is helping North Texans navigate the tax return process by hosting a free virtual Tax Credit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,2051],"class_list":{"0":"post-218065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news","11":"tag-taxes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}