Tax-Calculator
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Overview
Abstract
Tax Calculator
=======
The Tax Calculator is a calculator for the US federal individual income tax system. In conjunction with micro data that represents US taxpayer characteristics and a set of behavioral assumptions, we use the Tax Calculator to conduct revenue scoring and distributional analyses of tax policies.
Data
========
Documentation for many of the core variables used by the Tax Calculator is available at http://users.nber.org/~taxsim/gdb/gdb08.pdf.
Disclaimer
========
The Tax-Calculator is currently under development. Users should be forewarned that the API could change significantly. Additionally, the implementation is subject to wild change. Therefore, there is NO GUARANTEE OF ACCURACY. THE CODE SHOULD NOT CURRENTLY BE USED FOR PUBLICATIONS, JOURNAL ARTICLES, OR RESEARCH PURPOSES. Essentially, you should assume the calculations are unreliable until we finish the code re-architecture and have checked the results against other existing implementations of the tax code. The package will have released versions, which will be checked against existing code prior to release. Stay tuned for an upcoming release!
Disclaimer
========
The Tax-Calculator is currently under development. Users should be forewarned that the API could change significantly. Additionally, the implementation is subject to wild change. Therefore, there is NO GUARANTEE OF ACCURACY. THE CODE SHOULD NOT CURRENTLY BE USED FOR PUBLICATIONS, JOURNAL ARTICLES, OR RESEARCH PURPOSES. Essentially, you should assume the calculations are unreliable until we finish the code re-architecture and have checked the results against other existing implementations of the tax code. The package will have released versions, which will be checked against existing code prior to release. Stay tuned for an upcoming release!
Using Tax Calculator
========
TK
Tax Calculator Contributors
=======
The Tax Calculator is derived from taxcalc.sas, a program written by Dan Feenberg (NBER) and Inna Shapiro (NBER). Dan Feenberg, Sameer Sarkar, Matt Jensen, Ilia Kurenkov, T.J. Alumbaugh, Jake Lyons, and Amy Xu have contributed to OSPC's Tax Calculator.
About OSPC
=======
The Open-Source Policy Center (OSPC) seeks to make policy analysis more transparent, trustworthy, and collaborative by harnessing open-source methods to build cutting-edge economic models.
Installation
=======
The taxcalc package is installable via `python setup.py install`. We currently test against Python 2.7 and 3.4. You can install the latest conda package via
```
conda install -c ospc taxcalc
```
which will grab the latest taxcalc package from binstar.org. Currently, we host Python 3.4 packages for Linux and OS X.
For contributors, the conda recipe is located in the `conda.recipe` directory. You can build the conda package via the `conda build` command:
```
conda build --python 3.4 conda.recipe/
```
To learn more about the conda package manager, go to conda.pydata.org.
References
=======
Documentation for our peers' revenue estimating models:
Joint Committee on Taxation https://www.jct.gov/publications.html?func=startdown&id=4500
Tax Policy Center http://www.urban.org/publications/411136.html
=======
The Tax Calculator is a calculator for the US federal individual income tax system. In conjunction with micro data that represents US taxpayer characteristics and a set of behavioral assumptions, we use the Tax Calculator to conduct revenue scoring and distributional analyses of tax policies.
Data
========
Documentation for many of the core variables used by the Tax Calculator is available at http://users.nber.org/~taxsim/gdb/gdb08.pdf.
Disclaimer
========
The Tax-Calculator is currently under development. Users should be forewarned that the API could change significantly. Additionally, the implementation is subject to wild change. Therefore, there is NO GUARANTEE OF ACCURACY. THE CODE SHOULD NOT CURRENTLY BE USED FOR PUBLICATIONS, JOURNAL ARTICLES, OR RESEARCH PURPOSES. Essentially, you should assume the calculations are unreliable until we finish the code re-architecture and have checked the results against other existing implementations of the tax code. The package will have released versions, which will be checked against existing code prior to release. Stay tuned for an upcoming release!
Disclaimer
========
The Tax-Calculator is currently under development. Users should be forewarned that the API could change significantly. Additionally, the implementation is subject to wild change. Therefore, there is NO GUARANTEE OF ACCURACY. THE CODE SHOULD NOT CURRENTLY BE USED FOR PUBLICATIONS, JOURNAL ARTICLES, OR RESEARCH PURPOSES. Essentially, you should assume the calculations are unreliable until we finish the code re-architecture and have checked the results against other existing implementations of the tax code. The package will have released versions, which will be checked against existing code prior to release. Stay tuned for an upcoming release!
Using Tax Calculator
========
TK
Tax Calculator Contributors
=======
The Tax Calculator is derived from taxcalc.sas, a program written by Dan Feenberg (NBER) and Inna Shapiro (NBER). Dan Feenberg, Sameer Sarkar, Matt Jensen, Ilia Kurenkov, T.J. Alumbaugh, Jake Lyons, and Amy Xu have contributed to OSPC's Tax Calculator.
About OSPC
=======
The Open-Source Policy Center (OSPC) seeks to make policy analysis more transparent, trustworthy, and collaborative by harnessing open-source methods to build cutting-edge economic models.
Installation
=======
The taxcalc package is installable via `python setup.py install`. We currently test against Python 2.7 and 3.4. You can install the latest conda package via
```
conda install -c ospc taxcalc
```
which will grab the latest taxcalc package from binstar.org. Currently, we host Python 3.4 packages for Linux and OS X.
For contributors, the conda recipe is located in the `conda.recipe` directory. You can build the conda package via the `conda build` command:
```
conda build --python 3.4 conda.recipe/
```
To learn more about the conda package manager, go to conda.pydata.org.
References
=======
Documentation for our peers' revenue estimating models:
Joint Committee on Taxation https://www.jct.gov/publications.html?func=startdown&id=4500
Tax Policy Center http://www.urban.org/publications/411136.html
Authoring entity
| Agency Name | Role |
|---|---|
| xiyuw123 | owner |
Language
English
Methods, software and scripts
Software
| Name |
|---|
| SAS |
| Shell |
| Python |
License
| Name |
|---|
| MIT License |
Metadata production
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| GitHub Bot | bot |
Date of Production
01 December 2019