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Tax

Apr. 16, 2010

Poor Get Tax Refund Help

By the time the 2009 tax season is over this month, a Web-based application run by the Legal Aid Society of Orange County likely will have brought in well over $130 million to people of all income levels from across the country.

By Don J. DeBenedictis

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SANTA ANA - The first "victims" brought in to test the Legal Aid Society of Orange County's tax-filing computer application in 2003 began to cry minutes after starting on their unexpected task.

"Uh-oh," society Director Robert Cohen thought. "Our software's not supposed to make people cry."

In fact, the victims, a few women who...

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