The NonResident Tax Help Group & University of Maryland, Baltimore County International Tax Clinic

Member Home - Tax Year 2024

Congratulations! You now have access to all of the free services that NoRTH and UMBC offer to help you prepare your 2024 income tax returns, including the free, IRS-approved tax preparation software TaxSlayer.

  • First time doing taxes in the U.S.? We’d suggest walking through each of the steps above - Learn, Get Ready, and then Do Your Taxes

  • Been here before but not sure if you’re ready to start your return? Go through our Get Ready page to make sure you’ve got the information you need to Do Your Taxes

  • Done this a few times? Head straight to Do Your Taxes to create your personalized guide and get started on your return

  • If you run into any questions or issues on the way, see Get Help to ask us a question over email, or find a time to talk with one of our trained and certified tax volunteers.

NOTE: You MUST create your TaxSlayer account by using the link on the “Do Your Taxes” page to get free software access.

You cannot go to the main TaxSlayer website and access the free software. If the systems asks you to pay you have used the wrong site to create your account, and you will need to create a new account.

Support we provide:

We know taxes are complicated, and we’ve got something to help you through every step of the way.

General Support

These materials are available 24/7 to help you whenever you need it. Many of our clients last year were able to prepare their returns using just these tools, and we strongly encourage everyone to start their return using with them.

Personalized Guide Tool: This tool walks you through a series of questions to create a custom guide that you can use to prepare your tax return. This guide integrates our tax residency and treaty benefits tools, as well as selecting on the parts of the basic / special circumstances guides that are appropriate based on your responses to the interview questions.

Scenario Guides: These walk you through preparing your return, step by step, screenshot by screenshot. Our basic scenarios walk you through initially creating your return, and the Special Circumstances guides help you make adjustments for less common situations.

Video Tutorials: We provide video tutorials walking through how to use TaxSlayer to prepare your taxes for the basic scenarios, and the most common special circumstances situations we see. These videos put the guides into action, and walk you through step-by-step, showing you an overview of TaxSlayer and how to enter information from various tax forms you may have.

These resources should enable you to complete your entire return in most situations. If you book an appointment, we expect that you have started your return using these resources.

Individualized Support

Sometimes you just need to talk to someone, and we’re here for that, too.

Tax emails: If you’ve got a tricky situation that needs some extra technical help that isn’t covered in a guide or solved at an appointment, send us an email to: umbc.taxhelp@nrtaxhelp.org. Please note that simple questions that are covered in our guides or FAQ will be referred back to those resources, and if you haven’t already done so, we may suggest that you make an appointment for assistance.

Office Hours: Office hours are a quick, 20 minute appointment to get a few questions answered, or complete a review of your finished return. Office hours are remote only via zoom. We limit you to one per day, but you can come to as many days as you want, and we’ll help you get moving on your return.