You Must Make An Appointment!

 Sites are open from 2/3/2026 thru 4/10/2026

As of 4/15/2025, we are closed.   

Learn about more options for filing here.

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Before Making an Appointment: 

please check the Tax-Aide Scope page 

to see if we are able to prepare your return.

WE WILL PREPARE ONE TAX RETURN PER APPOINTMENT.  Please inform us if there is a reason a taxpayer will not be present at the appointment.  If so, be prepared with proof you can represent the absent taxpayer and proof of their identity (their photo ID and a photo of them holding their photo ID).

PRIOR YEAR TAX RETURNS: If you need prior year tax returns prepared, you must make one appointment for each tax year, in order of oldest to current.  The oldest we prepare and file electronically is TY2023.  We can prepare TY2022, but it will have to be mailed in.  We do prior year returns in March.

BE PREPARED TO BE AT THE TAX-AIDE LOCATION FOR SEVERAL HOURS.    It is recommended that you have no other appointment that day that would require you to leave the site before closing.  You might not see  a  tax counselor exactly at your appointment time as the amount of time it takes to properly prepare a return is unpredictable. 

Choose an appointment date that occurs  after you will  likely have all of your documents.  For example, do not schedule an appointment for February if you have a brokerage/investment account.

IF YOU'RE UNABLE TO KEEP YOUR APPOINTMENT, please call as soon as possible so that we might be able to help another taxpayer and reschedule you.

If you miss your appointment without calling us, you risk not being able to schedule another appointment.

Aquatic Park  Senior Center 

890 Beach Street 

(next to Maritime Museum)

call 415-775-1866 for an appointment

Open Tuesdays and Fridays  9:30am-2:00pm

LightHouse for the Blind

1155 Market St, 10th floor 

(across from Civic Center Bart Station)                                

for appointments, 

    either call 415-903-0360 or go online at https://tinyURL.com/LightHouseTaxAide

Open Mondays, Thursdays plus all 4 Wednesdays in March  9:00am-2:00pm

 Anyone may choose this location, you need not be visually impaired

This is a fragrance-free location

Stonestown YMCA Annex 

3150 20th Ave  

(near Pet Food Express)

Open Mondays and Wednesdays  10:00am-2:00pm

Glen Park Library 

2825 Diamond St.  

(near Canyon Market and Glen Park BART station)

Open 1st and 3rd Fridays 1:00pm-5:00pm

The Appointment Experience

We prepare your tax return while you sit with us.  We do not require masks, but do feel free to wear one and do not be offended if your counselor chooses to wear a mask.  Please call to reschedule your appointment if you're not well.

Important: Well before your appointment, please put together your Packet of Documents and bring them with you to your appointment.  Please bring printed documents (if necessary, ask your brokerage to mail your tax docs to you and allow time to receive them).   We likely will not be able to work with documents viewed on your device.

On the day of your appointment, please arrive 15 minutes before your scheduled appointment time to fill out paperwork required by Tax-Aide and by the host site.

Be prepared to stay several hours.  The time it takes to prepare a return varies and it is not possible to know how long beforehand, which makes scheduling challenging.  Please do not schedule any other appointment that would require you to leave the site before it closes.  If you do have a time constraint, please let the intake counselor know.  

For other tax preparation locations and options, 

including coaching you to prepare your own taxes online :

   Tax-Aide: call 1-888-227-7669 or visit https://taxaide.aarpfoundation.org 

  or

   IRS: call 1-800-906-9887 or visit https://irs.treasury.gov/freetaxprep/