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Contact a Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) in New York

If you are a low income taxpayer who needs assistance in resolving tax disputes with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and you cannot afford representation, or if you speak English as a second language and need help understanding your taxpayer rights and responsibilities, you may qualify for help from a Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) that provides free or nominal cost assistance.

Low Income Taxpayer Clinics represent low income taxpayers before the IRS and assist taxpayers in audits, appeals and collection disputes. LITCs can also help taxpayers respond to IRS notices and correct account problems.

Although LITCs receive partial funding from the IRS, LITCs, their employees, and their volunteers are completely independent of the federal government. These clinics are operated by nonprofit organizations or academic institutions.

This is not a recommendation by the IRS that you retain a Low Income Taxpayer Clinic or other similar organization to represent you before the IRS.

Each clinic independently decides if you meet the income eligibility guidelines and other criteria before it agrees to represent you. See the "Low Income Taxpayer Clinic Income Eligibility Guidelines".

The federally-funded clinics for the state selected are listed below.

The city for the main office of each clinic is listed; however, some clinics have multiple locations. Please contact the clinic for the office nearest you.

Low Income Taxpayer Clinics (LITCs)
State	City	Organization	Phone	Type of Clinic	Languages Served in Addition to English
NY	Albany	Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York LITC	800-462-2922 518-462-6765	Controversy	All languages through interpreter services
NY	Brooklyn	Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Legal Services LITC	718-636-1155	Controversy	Spanish
NY	Buffalo	Erie County Bar Association LITC	800-229-6198 716-847-0662	Controversy	Spanish / French / Arabic
NY	New York	Fordham University Law School Tax Litigation Clinic	212-636-7353	Controversy	Spanish
NY	New York	The Legal Aid Society LITC	212-426-3013	Controversy	Spanish
NY	Bronx	Legal Services NYC-Bronx LITC	718-928-3700	Controversy	All languages through interpreter services services
NY	Jamaica	Queens Legal Services LITC	347-592-2200	Controversy/ESL	All languages through interpreter services
NY	Brooklyn	Brooklyn Low Income Taxpayer Clinic	718-237-5528	Controversy/ESL	Spanish / Haitian Creole / Russian / American Sign Language / Other languages through interpreter services
NY	Syracuse	Syracuse University College of Law LITC	888-797-5291 315-443-4582	Controversy	All languages through interpreter services
NY	Elmsford	WestCOP Taxpayer Education Services	914-592-5600	ESL	Spanish

Page Last Reviewed or Updated: 2013-04-23