Thomas Vazquez helped hundreds of taxpayers prepare and file tax returns years before filing one for himself.<\/p>\n
Some may say youth is wasted on the young. But in Vazquez\u2019s 22 years, he has wasted little. At just 17 years old and a senior in high school in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Vazquez enrolled in the H&R Block Income Tax Course<\/a>. He passed easily and was asked to become a tax professional the upcoming tax season. Vazquez turned 18 that December and weeks later \u2013 months before graduating high school \u2013 was prepping and filing tax returns all while having never filed one for himself.<\/p>\n He files a tax return now but because he\u2019s a student and under 24, his parents still claim him as a dependent.<\/p>\n