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Description
In the 0.632.0 version, the requirements for paying the ID PBF $10 tax do not correspond to what the 2021 instructions say. The instructions say a taxpayer that is not required to file an income tax is not liable for the PBF tax (and there are other reasons a taxpayer would not be PBF liable). Here are the instruction saying that:
The gross income levels above which taxpayers are required to file an income tax return are as follows:
But the code in the id_pbf_liable formula does not correspond to these instructions.
As a result of this discrepancy, there are many differences with TAXSIM35. The following case is an example:
- name: Tax unit with taxsimid 99992 in e21.its.csv and e21.ots.csv
absolute_error_margin: 0.01
period: 2021
input:
people:
person1:
age: 69
employment_income: 10010
taxable_interest_income: 11010
ssi: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
state_supplement: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
wic: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
person2:
age: 11
ssi: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
state_supplement: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
wic: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
tax_units:
tax_unit:
members: [person1, person2]
premium_tax_credit: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
local_income_tax: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
state_sales_tax: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
spm_units:
spm_unit:
members: [person1, person2]
snap: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
tanf: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
households:
household:
members: [person1, person2]
state_fips: 16 # ID
output: # expected results from patched TAXSIM35 2024-01-27 version
id_income_tax: -210.00
PEUS fails this test because it calculates the id_income_tax amount as -220 dollars, which is the size of the refundable grocery credit for this case.