PolicyEngine / policyengine-uk

The UK's only open-source static tax-benefit microsimulation model.
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Impute capital gains #583

Open MaxGhenis opened 3 years ago

MaxGhenis commented 3 years ago

Moving from https://github.com/nikhilwoodruff/frs/issues/12; see also https://github.com/PSLmodels/openfisca-uk/issues/40 which covers implementation of capital gains tax logic.

Neither FRS nor SPI nor WAS microdata includes capital gains, but we could impute them from HMRC statistical tables. Here are some high level stats from 2018-19:

The Office of Tax Simplification has some additional data. For example, the below chart shows that people bunch capital gains below the 12,300 threshold; while the report includes data for some charts, it omits it from this one. image

MaxGhenis commented 2 years ago

@nikhilwoodruff found that Landman Economics imputes within categories proportionally to capital holdings.