BIRMINGHAM — Volunteers are being sought by the IRS and AARP to help the elderly, and those who cannot afford tax help, prepare their taxes in 2014.

Through AARP Tax-Aide, a program of the AARP Foundation and the IRS Tax Counseling for the Elderly, volunteers learn to use a computer to prepare simple to moderate federal and state tax returns. In return, volunteers are asked to spend at least four hours a week helping at an AARP site from Feb. 1 through April 15.

Volunteers do not have any accounting experience. All that is required is a desire to help others who cannot prepare their basic returns or afford to pay a tax preparer.

Tax-Aide volunteers participate in training sessions — in class, online, and through self-study — then are tested on what they learned. Once certified, volunteers are assigned, with more experienced volunteers, to sites in neighborhood community centers, libraries and churches.

Tax-Aide gives special attention to those age 60 and older because they are a service of the IRS’ Tax Counseling for the Elderly program, but they are not limited to older clients or AARP members.

During the 2013 filing season and prepared more than 3.3 million returns at thousands of tax sites nationwide.

For more information or to volunteer, contact the AARP volunteer coordinator, Ray Hutchison, at rhutchison7@gmail.net or register online at www.aarp.org/taxaide or call 888-OUR-AARP (1-888-687-2277). Or contact the IRS by e-mail at wi.spec.bhampartners@irs.gov.