PSLmodels / taxdata

The TaxData project prepares microdata for use with the Tax-Calculator microsimulation project.
http://pslmodels.github.io/taxdata/
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$121b of wages of millionaires dropped from puf stage 2 targets?? #399

Open donboyd5 opened 3 years ago

donboyd5 commented 3 years ago

Of possible interest to @andersonfrailey @MattHJensen @rickecon @jdebacker:

Been trying to figure out why some of my numbers for 2017 differ substantially from official TaxData & Tax-Calculator so I looked at wage data for 2017. As noted in the title, I think TaxData is dropping $121 billion of wages of millionaires, which would help explain why I get such very different distributions of income and other items vs. TaxData. Here are key facts and inferences:

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If I made a mistake in examining this I would much appreciate an early alert, but I have checked it over several times.

andersonfrailey commented 3 years ago

HI @donboyd5, thanks for digging into this! I think you're right that this is a bug, likely introduced when I tried automating the SOI estimates. I'll get a fix up and some checks to keep it from happening again.