An IRS-supported network of Volunteer Income Tax Assistance and Tax
Counseling for the Elderly sites offering free basic tax preparation for
qualifying taxpayers. VITA/TCE scores well because it converts tax
filing from a paid extraction point into trained community assistance
for lower-income, disabled, elderly, and limited-English taxpayers.
Why this matters: VITA/TCE is the strongest tax-filing
alternative in this pass because it directly helps people least able to
pay tax-prep tolls.
Letter grade AGoodHigh confidence
(AI)Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not
human-checked or final.
Base Material53Bonus+6Cap66No structure cap
After Cap59Penalties0!Not Verified
Represent this organization?
Request verification to have the evidence record checked against primary
materials and organization-supplied documents. Verification does not buy
a higher score; scores change only when review finds factual errors,
omissions, or miscalibration.
The score turns mainly on Extraction; no penalty currently dominates the
evaluation.
Strengths
Extraction8/10
Solidarity with the
Unemployed7/7
Ownership6/10
Penalties
No penalties applied in this version.
Evidence state
ConfidenceHigh
confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped
(AI)
Linked claims13
Direct axis claims13
Coverage13/13
Scoring Axes
Axis
Score
Why this score
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
6 / 10
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record identifies its ownership
form, institutional type, or public/private/nonprofit/cooperative
structure in the tax category.
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record identifies its ownership
form, institutional type, or public/private/nonprofit/cooperative
structure in the tax category. On Ownership, VITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation sits in the middle because the structure has real public,
nonprofit, or service value, but users still do not hold decisive
control over prices, access rules, quality, or institutional priorities.
That places it above ordinary shareholder firms but below democratic or
member-owned alternatives.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Coverage-gap batch calibrated
across tax filing, utilities, housing, storage, healthcare systems, and
childcare/youth institutions.
Linked evidence
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record identifies its
ownership form, institutional type, or
public/private/nonprofit/cooperative structure in the tax
category.[1]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public record indicates whether binding control sits with
shareholders, executives, members, public officials, nonprofit boards,
residents, patients, or customers.[2]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's model determines whether money flows primarily to
investors and owners or back toward users, members, public value,
community services, affordability, or mission delivery.[3]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public materials do not show ordinary workers holding full
binding democratic control over the institution.[4]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation operates in an everyday-need category where job loss,
illness, rent pressure, family-care obligations, tax compliance, utility
dependence, or household instability affects bargaining power.[5]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's product or service can absorb real household, civic, care,
housing, energy, or tax-compliance risk, but the record also shows who
bears costs when the institution fails or prices rise.[6]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation operates in a market where customers, tenants, patients,
taxpayers, utility users, parents, or community members often face
switching costs, asymmetric information, or limited choice.[7]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's core service has practical everyday utility, but its
integrity depends on pricing, safety, transparency, access, quality,
data handling, and accountability.[8]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's scale or category makes its decisions consequential for
ordinary U.S. households, patients, tenants, parents, taxpayers, utility
customers, or communities.[9]
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
6 / 10
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record indicates whether
binding control sits with shareholders, executives, members, public
officials, nonprofit boards, residents, patients, or customers.
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record indicates whether
binding control sits with shareholders, executives, members, public
officials, nonprofit boards, residents, patients, or customers. On
Governance, VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation sits in the middle because
the structure has real public, nonprofit, or service value, but users
still do not hold decisive control over prices, access rules, quality,
or institutional priorities. That places it above ordinary shareholder
firms but below democratic or member-owned alternatives.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Coverage-gap batch calibrated
across tax filing, utilities, housing, storage, healthcare systems, and
childcare/youth institutions.
Linked evidence
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public record identifies its ownership form, institutional
type, or public/private/nonprofit/cooperative structure in the tax
category.[1]
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record indicates whether
binding control sits with shareholders, executives, members, public
officials, nonprofit boards, residents, patients, or customers.[2]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's model determines whether money flows primarily to
investors and owners or back toward users, members, public value,
community services, affordability, or mission delivery.[3]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public materials do not show ordinary workers holding full
binding democratic control over the institution.[4]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation operates in an everyday-need category where job loss,
illness, rent pressure, family-care obligations, tax compliance, utility
dependence, or household instability affects bargaining power.[5]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's product or service can absorb real household, civic, care,
housing, energy, or tax-compliance risk, but the record also shows who
bears costs when the institution fails or prices rise.[6]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation operates in a market where customers, tenants, patients,
taxpayers, utility users, parents, or community members often face
switching costs, asymmetric information, or limited choice.[7]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's core service has practical everyday utility, but its
integrity depends on pricing, safety, transparency, access, quality,
data handling, and accountability.[8]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's scale or category makes its decisions consequential for
ordinary U.S. households, patients, tenants, parents, taxpayers, utility
customers, or communities.[9]
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
8 / 10
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's model determines whether money flows
primarily to investors and owners or back toward users, members, public
value, community services, affordability, or mission delivery.
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's model determines whether money flows
primarily to investors and owners or back toward users, members, public
value, community services, affordability, or mission delivery. On
Extraction, VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation belongs near the top of this
pass because its cooperative, public, volunteer, or nonprofit structure
moves power and value closer to the people the service exists to help.
It remains below the strongest directory entries where scale,
bureaucracy, local variation, utility dependence, or public-program
limits still constrain user power.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Coverage-gap batch calibrated
across tax filing, utilities, housing, storage, healthcare systems, and
childcare/youth institutions.
Linked evidence
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public record identifies its ownership form, institutional
type, or public/private/nonprofit/cooperative structure in the tax
category.[1]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public record indicates whether binding control sits with
shareholders, executives, members, public officials, nonprofit boards,
residents, patients, or customers.[2]
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's model determines whether money
flows primarily to investors and owners or back toward users, members,
public value, community services, affordability, or mission
delivery.[3]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public materials do not show ordinary workers holding full
binding democratic control over the institution.[4]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation operates in an everyday-need category where job loss,
illness, rent pressure, family-care obligations, tax compliance, utility
dependence, or household instability affects bargaining power.[5]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's product or service can absorb real household, civic, care,
housing, energy, or tax-compliance risk, but the record also shows who
bears costs when the institution fails or prices rise.[6]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation operates in a market where customers, tenants, patients,
taxpayers, utility users, parents, or community members often face
switching costs, asymmetric information, or limited choice.[7]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's core service has practical everyday utility, but its
integrity depends on pricing, safety, transparency, access, quality,
data handling, and accountability.[8]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's scale or category makes its decisions consequential for
ordinary U.S. households, patients, tenants, parents, taxpayers, utility
customers, or communities.[9]
Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at
7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence
shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling,
retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of
worker voice, or extreme turnover.
5 / 7
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's linked public materials do not show
ordinary workers holding full binding democratic control over the
institution.
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's linked public materials do not show
ordinary workers holding full binding democratic control over the
institution. On Labor Sovereignty, VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation sits
in the middle because the structure has real public, nonprofit, or
service value, but users still do not hold decisive control over prices,
access rules, quality, or institutional priorities. That places it above
ordinary shareholder firms but below democratic or member-owned
alternatives.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Coverage-gap batch calibrated
across tax filing, utilities, housing, storage, healthcare systems, and
childcare/youth institutions.
Linked evidence
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public record identifies its ownership form, institutional
type, or public/private/nonprofit/cooperative structure in the tax
category.[1]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public record indicates whether binding control sits with
shareholders, executives, members, public officials, nonprofit boards,
residents, patients, or customers.[2]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's model determines whether money flows primarily to
investors and owners or back toward users, members, public value,
community services, affordability, or mission delivery.[3]
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public materials do not show
ordinary workers holding full binding democratic control over the
institution.[4]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation operates in an everyday-need category where job loss,
illness, rent pressure, family-care obligations, tax compliance, utility
dependence, or household instability affects bargaining power.[5]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's product or service can absorb real household, civic, care,
housing, energy, or tax-compliance risk, but the record also shows who
bears costs when the institution fails or prices rise.[6]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation operates in a market where customers, tenants, patients,
taxpayers, utility users, parents, or community members often face
switching costs, asymmetric information, or limited choice.[7]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's core service has practical everyday utility, but its
integrity depends on pricing, safety, transparency, access, quality,
data handling, and accountability.[8]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's scale or category makes its decisions consequential for
ordinary U.S. households, patients, tenants, parents, taxpayers, utility
customers, or communities.[9]
Solidarity with the
Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
7 / 7
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation operates in an everyday-need category
where job loss, illness, rent pressure, family-care obligations, tax
compliance, utility dependence, or household instability affects
bargaining power.
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation operates in an everyday-need category
where job loss, illness, rent pressure, family-care obligations, tax
compliance, utility dependence, or household instability affects
bargaining power. On Solidarity with the Unemployed, VITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation belongs near the top of this pass because its cooperative,
public, volunteer, or nonprofit structure moves power and value closer
to the people the service exists to help. It remains below the strongest
directory entries where scale, bureaucracy, local variation, utility
dependence, or public-program limits still constrain user power.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Coverage-gap batch calibrated
across tax filing, utilities, housing, storage, healthcare systems, and
childcare/youth institutions.
Linked evidence
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public record identifies its ownership form, institutional
type, or public/private/nonprofit/cooperative structure in the tax
category.[1]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public record indicates whether binding control sits with
shareholders, executives, members, public officials, nonprofit boards,
residents, patients, or customers.[2]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's model determines whether money flows primarily to
investors and owners or back toward users, members, public value,
community services, affordability, or mission delivery.[3]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public materials do not show ordinary workers holding full
binding democratic control over the institution.[4]
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation operates in an everyday-need
category where job loss, illness, rent pressure, family-care
obligations, tax compliance, utility dependence, or household
instability affects bargaining power.[5]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's product or service can absorb real household, civic, care,
housing, energy, or tax-compliance risk, but the record also shows who
bears costs when the institution fails or prices rise.[6]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation operates in a market where customers, tenants, patients,
taxpayers, utility users, parents, or community members often face
switching costs, asymmetric information, or limited choice.[7]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's core service has practical everyday utility, but its
integrity depends on pricing, safety, transparency, access, quality,
data handling, and accountability.[8]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's scale or category makes its decisions consequential for
ordinary U.S. households, patients, tenants, parents, taxpayers, utility
customers, or communities.[9]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
6 / 7
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's product or service can absorb real
household, civic, care, housing, energy, or tax-compliance risk, but the
record also shows who bears costs when the institution fails or prices
rise.
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's product or service can absorb real
household, civic, care, housing, energy, or tax-compliance risk, but the
record also shows who bears costs when the institution fails or prices
rise. On Loss-Bearing Fidelity, VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation sits in
the middle because the structure has real public, nonprofit, or service
value, but users still do not hold decisive control over prices, access
rules, quality, or institutional priorities. That places it above
ordinary shareholder firms but below democratic or member-owned
alternatives.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Coverage-gap batch calibrated
across tax filing, utilities, housing, storage, healthcare systems, and
childcare/youth institutions.
Linked evidence
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public record identifies its ownership form, institutional
type, or public/private/nonprofit/cooperative structure in the tax
category.[1]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public record indicates whether binding control sits with
shareholders, executives, members, public officials, nonprofit boards,
residents, patients, or customers.[2]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's model determines whether money flows primarily to
investors and owners or back toward users, members, public value,
community services, affordability, or mission delivery.[3]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public materials do not show ordinary workers holding full
binding democratic control over the institution.[4]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation operates in an everyday-need category where job loss,
illness, rent pressure, family-care obligations, tax compliance, utility
dependence, or household instability affects bargaining power.[5]
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's product or service can absorb
real household, civic, care, housing, energy, or tax-compliance risk,
but the record also shows who bears costs when the institution fails or
prices rise.[6]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation operates in a market where customers, tenants, patients,
taxpayers, utility users, parents, or community members often face
switching costs, asymmetric information, or limited choice.[7]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's core service has practical everyday utility, but its
integrity depends on pricing, safety, transparency, access, quality,
data handling, and accountability.[8]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's scale or category makes its decisions consequential for
ordinary U.S. households, patients, tenants, parents, taxpayers, utility
customers, or communities.[9]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
5 / 5
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation operates in a market where customers,
tenants, patients, taxpayers, utility users, parents, or community
members often face switching costs, asymmetric information, or limited
choice.
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation operates in a market where customers,
tenants, patients, taxpayers, utility users, parents, or community
members often face switching costs, asymmetric information, or limited
choice. On Market Conduct, VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation sits in the
middle because the structure has real public, nonprofit, or service
value, but users still do not hold decisive control over prices, access
rules, quality, or institutional priorities. That places it above
ordinary shareholder firms but below democratic or member-owned
alternatives.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Coverage-gap batch calibrated
across tax filing, utilities, housing, storage, healthcare systems, and
childcare/youth institutions.
Linked evidence
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public record identifies its ownership form, institutional
type, or public/private/nonprofit/cooperative structure in the tax
category.[1]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public record indicates whether binding control sits with
shareholders, executives, members, public officials, nonprofit boards,
residents, patients, or customers.[2]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's model determines whether money flows primarily to
investors and owners or back toward users, members, public value,
community services, affordability, or mission delivery.[3]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public materials do not show ordinary workers holding full
binding democratic control over the institution.[4]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation operates in an everyday-need category where job loss,
illness, rent pressure, family-care obligations, tax compliance, utility
dependence, or household instability affects bargaining power.[5]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's product or service can absorb real household, civic, care,
housing, energy, or tax-compliance risk, but the record also shows who
bears costs when the institution fails or prices rise.[6]
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation operates in a market where
customers, tenants, patients, taxpayers, utility users, parents, or
community members often face switching costs, asymmetric information, or
limited choice.[7]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's core service has practical everyday utility, but its
integrity depends on pricing, safety, transparency, access, quality,
data handling, and accountability.[8]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's scale or category makes its decisions consequential for
ordinary U.S. households, patients, tenants, parents, taxpayers, utility
customers, or communities.[9]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
5 / 5
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's core service has practical everyday
utility, but its integrity depends on pricing, safety, transparency,
access, quality, data handling, and accountability.
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's core service has practical everyday
utility, but its integrity depends on pricing, safety, transparency,
access, quality, data handling, and accountability. On Product
Integrity, VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation sits in the middle because
the structure has real public, nonprofit, or service value, but users
still do not hold decisive control over prices, access rules, quality,
or institutional priorities. That places it above ordinary shareholder
firms but below democratic or member-owned alternatives.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Coverage-gap batch calibrated
across tax filing, utilities, housing, storage, healthcare systems, and
childcare/youth institutions.
Linked evidence
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public record identifies its ownership form, institutional
type, or public/private/nonprofit/cooperative structure in the tax
category.[1]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public record indicates whether binding control sits with
shareholders, executives, members, public officials, nonprofit boards,
residents, patients, or customers.[2]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's model determines whether money flows primarily to
investors and owners or back toward users, members, public value,
community services, affordability, or mission delivery.[3]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public materials do not show ordinary workers holding full
binding democratic control over the institution.[4]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation operates in an everyday-need category where job loss,
illness, rent pressure, family-care obligations, tax compliance, utility
dependence, or household instability affects bargaining power.[5]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's product or service can absorb real household, civic, care,
housing, energy, or tax-compliance risk, but the record also shows who
bears costs when the institution fails or prices rise.[6]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation operates in a market where customers, tenants, patients,
taxpayers, utility users, parents, or community members often face
switching costs, asymmetric information, or limited choice.[7]
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's core service has practical
everyday utility, but its integrity depends on pricing, safety,
transparency, access, quality, data handling, and accountability.[8]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's scale or category makes its decisions consequential for
ordinary U.S. households, patients, tenants, parents, taxpayers, utility
customers, or communities.[9]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
5 / 5
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's scale or category makes its decisions
consequential for ordinary U.S. households, patients, tenants, parents,
taxpayers, utility customers, or communities.
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's scale or category makes its decisions
consequential for ordinary U.S. households, patients, tenants, parents,
taxpayers, utility customers, or communities. On Scale Integrity, VITA /
TCE Free Tax Preparation sits in the middle because the structure has
real public, nonprofit, or service value, but users still do not hold
decisive control over prices, access rules, quality, or institutional
priorities. That places it above ordinary shareholder firms but below
democratic or member-owned alternatives.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Coverage-gap batch calibrated
across tax filing, utilities, housing, storage, healthcare systems, and
childcare/youth institutions.
Linked evidence
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public record identifies its ownership form, institutional
type, or public/private/nonprofit/cooperative structure in the tax
category.[1]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public record indicates whether binding control sits with
shareholders, executives, members, public officials, nonprofit boards,
residents, patients, or customers.[2]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's model determines whether money flows primarily to
investors and owners or back toward users, members, public value,
community services, affordability, or mission delivery.[3]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's public materials do not show ordinary workers holding full
binding democratic control over the institution.[4]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation operates in an everyday-need category where job loss,
illness, rent pressure, family-care obligations, tax compliance, utility
dependence, or household instability affects bargaining power.[5]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's product or service can absorb real household, civic, care,
housing, energy, or tax-compliance risk, but the record also shows who
bears costs when the institution fails or prices rise.[6]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation operates in a market where customers, tenants, patients,
taxpayers, utility users, parents, or community members often face
switching costs, asymmetric information, or limited choice.[7]
contextVITA / TCE Free Tax
Preparation's core service has practical everyday utility, but its
integrity depends on pricing, safety, transparency, access, quality,
data handling, and accountability.[8]
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's scale or category makes its
decisions consequential for ordinary U.S. households, patients, tenants,
parents, taxpayers, utility customers, or communities.[9]
Penalties
No penalties applied in this version.
Bonus Credits
Bonus
Credit
Why this credit
Openness to Dissent
?
Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public
dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.
1 / 3
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record makes Openness to
Dissent relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying,
environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public
mission, or community accountability.
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record makes Openness to
Dissent relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying,
environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public
mission, or community accountability. This earns limited Openness to
Dissent credit because the record shows a concrete public, cooperative,
affordability, access, transparency, or community-accountability feature
beyond ordinary market service. The credit stays limited unless affected
users can reliably exercise durable power over the institution.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Coverage-gap batch calibrated
across tax filing, utilities, housing, storage, healthcare systems, and
childcare/youth institutions.
Linked evidence
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record makes Openness to
Dissent relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying,
environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public
mission, or community accountability.[10]
Constitutional Spirit
?
Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms
even where private law does not strictly require it.
1 / 3
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record makes Constitutional
Spirit relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying,
environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public
mission, or community accountability.
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record makes Constitutional
Spirit relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying,
environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public
mission, or community accountability. This earns limited Constitutional
Spirit credit because the record shows a concrete public, cooperative,
affordability, access, transparency, or community-accountability feature
beyond ordinary market service. The credit stays limited unless affected
users can reliably exercise durable power over the institution.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Coverage-gap batch calibrated
across tax filing, utilities, housing, storage, healthcare systems, and
childcare/youth institutions.
Linked evidence
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record makes
Constitutional Spirit relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety,
lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in,
public mission, or community accountability.[11]
Good Deal
?
Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low
lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
2 / 3
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record makes Good Deal relevant
through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden,
youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community
accountability.
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record makes Good Deal relevant
through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden,
youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community
accountability. This earns limited Good Deal credit because the record
shows a concrete public, cooperative, affordability, access,
transparency, or community-accountability feature beyond ordinary market
service. The credit stays limited unless affected users can reliably
exercise durable power over the institution.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Coverage-gap batch calibrated
across tax filing, utilities, housing, storage, healthcare systems, and
childcare/youth institutions.
Linked evidence
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record makes Good Deal
relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental
burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or
community accountability.[12]
Cost Transparency
?
Credit for clear posted prices, all-in fees, unit costs, public rate
cards, margin/cost visibility, or surplus-allocation transparency,
especially in markets where opaque quotes, hidden fees, or
individualized pricing are normal.
2 / 3
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record makes Cost Transparency
relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental
burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or
community accountability.
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record makes Cost Transparency
relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental
burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or
community accountability. This earns limited Cost Transparency credit
because the record shows a concrete public, cooperative, affordability,
access, transparency, or community-accountability feature beyond
ordinary market service. The credit stays limited unless affected users
can reliably exercise durable power over the institution.
Calibration notes
Comparative anchor: Coverage-gap batch calibrated
across tax filing, utilities, housing, storage, healthcare systems, and
childcare/youth institutions.
Linked evidence
VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record makes Cost
Transparency relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying,
environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public
mission, or community accountability.[13]
Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not
typed into the profile by hand.
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail.
AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence17/20
13 verified linked claims
Source quality18/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims14/18
13 direct claims across 13 active components
Dispute load12/12
0 disputed claims on this entity
Recency10/10
Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026
Reviewer status7/12
Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding
Component coverage10/10
13/13 evidence-bearing components have direct support
Evidence State
Evidence State
Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
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Claims and Sources
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category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support
a score.
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human-checked or final.
1VITA
/ TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record identifies its ownership
form, institutional type, or public/private/nonprofit/cooperative
structure in the tax category.
2VITA
/ TCE Free Tax Preparation's public record indicates whether binding
control sits with shareholders, executives, members, public officials,
nonprofit boards, residents, patients, or customers.
3VITA
/ TCE Free Tax Preparation's model determines whether money flows
primarily to investors and owners or back toward users, members, public
value, community services, affordability, or mission delivery.
6VITA
/ TCE Free Tax Preparation's product or service can absorb real
household, civic, care, housing, energy, or tax-compliance risk, but the
record also shows who bears costs when the institution fails or prices
rise.
Loss Bearing FidelityVerifiedHigh
confidenceHuman-reviewed
7VITA
/ TCE Free Tax Preparation operates in a market where customers,
tenants, patients, taxpayers, utility users, parents, or community
members often face switching costs, asymmetric information, or limited
choice.
8VITA
/ TCE Free Tax Preparation's core service has practical everyday
utility, but its integrity depends on pricing, safety, transparency,
access, quality, data handling, and accountability.
9VITA
/ TCE Free Tax Preparation's scale or category makes its decisions
consequential for ordinary U.S. households, patients, tenants, parents,
taxpayers, utility customers, or communities.
10VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's
public record makes Openness to Dissent relevant through its ownership,
pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data
practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
Openness To DissentVerifiedMedium
confidenceHuman-reviewed
11VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's
public record makes Constitutional Spirit relevant through its
ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth
exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community
accountability.
12VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's
public record makes Good Deal relevant through its ownership, pricing,
safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices,
lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
13VITA / TCE Free Tax Preparation's
public record makes Cost Transparency relevant through its ownership,
pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data
practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
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