Closed martinholmer closed 5 days ago
Here that is in the IRC: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/221
Phases out starting at $50k/100k then indexed from 2002 on, rounded down in $5k increments.
The IRS shows indexed parameters in their data releases under Interest on Education Loans
, e.g. here for 2024: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rp-23-34.pdf#page=16
The federal income tax allows an above-the-line deduction related to student loan interest. The 2021 IRS Publication 970 describes it this way:
So, the deduction amount is both capped and phased-out for tax units with high income.
The 0.778.0 version of Policyengine-US incorrectly uses the
student_loan_interest
as the above-the-line deduction amount, omitting the capping and phase-out logic of the law. What is needed is the addition of a newstudent_loan_interest_deduction
variable that implements the capping and phasing-out rules, and the use of this newstudent_loan_interest_deduction
variable in the list of above-the-line deductions.This bug also affects a number of state income taxes.