The Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) is designed to meet the needs of low-income Rhode Islanders who are experiencing difficulties with the IRS. RILS is able to assist low-income Rhode Island taxpayers, including those for whom English is a Second Language, to obtain fair and equitable treatment in disputes with the Internal Revenue Service, and favorable resolution of their controversies with the IRS.

The goal of Rhode Island Legal Service’s LITC is to provide direct representation to taxpayers and perform outreach and education to the underserved.

Inspiring Equal Justice

To withhold the equal protection of the laws, is to undermine the entire structure and threaten it with collapse.... To deny law or justice to any person is, in actual effect, to outlaw them by stripping them of their only protection.
It is for such reasons that freedom and equality of justice are essential to a democracy and that denial of justice is the short cut to anarchy.

Reginald Heber Smith