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This refund may help put your client on a path to financial stability and prevent potential future financial difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for the upcoming tax season, we wanted to share with you \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/csd.wustl.edu\/Publications\/Documents\/T15-56.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-wa-link=\"body_washuTax\" target=\"_blank\">The Volunteer Income Tax Preparer\u2019s Toolkit<\/a>,\u201d produced by researchers at the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis. While prepared for the volunteer tax preparer, there are helpful resources in the toolkit that tax pro may be able to use when working with taxpayers on how to responsibly save or use their refund.<\/p>\n<p>The toolkit explains:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:60px;\">This toolkit is designed to give you, the income tax preparer, a background on the whys and hows. 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