PolicyEngine / policyengine-us

The PolicyEngine US Python package contains a rules engine of the US tax-benefit system, and microdata generation for microsimulation analysis.
https://policyengine.org/us
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Round Arkansas deduction allocation fraction to nearest whole percent #4586

Closed martinholmer closed 4 months ago

martinholmer commented 4 months ago

In the 0.778.0 version, AR itemized deductions for a married couple are allocated in proportion to head and spouse AGI when they are filing separately, PEUS does this but fails to round the allocation fraction to the nearest whole percent as required by the following instructions:

AR-allocation-rules

TAXSIM35 does do the required rounding, and therefore, there are a number of tax differences in the k21 sample.