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Aid for Entrepreneurs

Wrap-around support makes small business owners’ path to success less taxing

By Kevin Allenspach
Photography by Paul Middlestaedt

Tax season can create anxiety for anyone. For low- to moderate-income individuals, especially new Americans, the path to filing a return can be intimidating. With help from the Initiative Foundation, Lam Chuol is making a career out of calming those fears.

Born in Sudan, Chuol was 9 when his family came to the United States in 1998. He graduated from Minneapolis Roosevelt High School, earned a basketball scholarship to Ohio Valley University and received his accounting degree in 2010. He worked for various national tax preparers for several years before he branched out independently.