Following PR #1494, many more of the TAXSIM35 2021 PA validation tests pass. The first failures are in the v21 sample that adds pension income to some of the randomly generated tax units. The differences between the TAXSIM35 results and the PolicyEngine US results indicate that PR #1494 was not correct in excluding all pension income from PA AGI. The key phrase in the following screenshot that TAXSIM35 implements, and PR #1494 does not, is: "after becoming eligible to retire, and retiring".
The following test case illustrates these v21 sample differences:
- name: Tax unit with taxsimid 17052 in v21.its.csv and v21.ots.csv
absolute_error_margin: 0.01
period: 2021
input:
people:
person1:
is_tax_unit_head: 1
is_tax_unit_spouse: 0
is_tax_unit_dependent: 0
age: 34
employment_income: 18000
qualified_dividend_income: 4000
taxable_interest_income: 3000
short_term_capital_gains: 10000
long_term_capital_gains: 9000
taxable_pension_income: 12000
social_security: 3000
real_estate_taxes: 23000
interest_expense: 25000
ssi: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
state_supplement: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
wic: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
person2:
is_tax_unit_head: 0
is_tax_unit_spouse: 0
is_tax_unit_dependent: 1
age: 16
ssi: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
state_supplement: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
wic: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
person3:
is_tax_unit_head: 0
is_tax_unit_spouse: 0
is_tax_unit_dependent: 1
age: 16
ssi: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
state_supplement: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
wic: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
person4:
is_tax_unit_head: 0
is_tax_unit_spouse: 0
is_tax_unit_dependent: 1
age: 16
ssi: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
state_supplement: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
wic: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
person5:
is_tax_unit_head: 0
is_tax_unit_spouse: 0
is_tax_unit_dependent: 1
age: 16
ssi: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
state_supplement: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
wic: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
spm_units:
spm_unit:
members: [person1, person2, person3, person4, person5]
snap: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
tanf: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
tax_units:
tax_unit:
members: [person1, person2, person3, person4, person5]
premium_tax_credit: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
pa_use_tax: 0 # not in TAXSIM35
households:
household:
members: [person1, person2, person3, person4, person5]
state_code: PA
output: # expected results from TAXSIM35
pa_income_tax: 1719.20
Following PR #1494, many more of the TAXSIM35 2021 PA validation tests pass. The first failures are in the v21 sample that adds pension income to some of the randomly generated tax units. The differences between the TAXSIM35 results and the PolicyEngine US results indicate that PR #1494 was not correct in excluding all pension income from PA AGI. The key phrase in the following screenshot that TAXSIM35 implements, and PR #1494 does not, is: "after becoming eligible to retire, and retiring".
The following test case illustrates these v21 sample differences: