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This tax season, you can give back when completing your Illinois income
tax form by donating to Habitat for Humanity
of Illinois, our state support organization. A new tax check-off
program, passed last spring by the Illinois General Assembly, makes it
easier than ever to donate at a time of unprecedented need for
affordable housing for low-income Illinois families.
Your donation
will directly support Habitat’s efforts to build and repair houses in
partnership with hardworking families across the state, who are in
desperate need of safe, decent, affordable housing.
It’s easy and convenient. Submit a Schedule
G sheet along with your IL-1040. Select “Habitat for Humanity
of Illinois” on line K on this quick form. A taxpayer may state any
amount $1 or greater (no maximum) to be deducted from their
refund or to be added to their tax due. Even one-dollar gifts quickly
add up to make an immediate impact.
There are more than 5 million Illinois tax returns filed. If $1 were
donated on every tax return, that would yield $5,000,000!
Don’t think that your $1 won’t mean anything. A sum like that can
supply funding to provide affordable housing for as many as 140
well-deserving Illinois families in need of home to call their own.
Poverty housing persists in every county in Illinois. The 51 Habitat
affiliates collectively build nearly 100 houses each year, partnering
with families to lift them out of deplorable living conditions.
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