Policyengine-taxsim

TAXSIM emulator using the PolicyEngine US federal and state tax calculator

How to use the emulator

The emulator takes a .csv file in the form of a csv. This is the same form of input that Taxsim-35 takes.

Open your terminal in the parent directory

1. To install this package

pip install -e .

2. to execute the simulation, run

python policyengine_taxsim/cli.py resources/taxsim35/taxsim_input.csv

Output will be generated as output.csv in the same directory

For directly installing from pip

You can install through to execute directly

pip install git+https://github.com/PolicyEngine/policyengine-taxsim.git

Example

input file:

List of working input variables

Demographics:

1. taxsimid
2. year
3. state
4. mstat (only 1 (single) and 2 (joint) filing options work)
5. page (age of primary taxpayer)
6. sage (age of spouse)
7. depx (number of dependents)
8. age1 (age of first dependent)
9. age2 (age of second dependent)
10. age3 (age of third dependent)

Income:

1. pwages (wage of primary taxpayer)
2. swages (wage of spouse)
3. psemp (self-employment income of primary taxpayer)
4. ssemp (self-employment income of spouse)
5. dividends (dividend income)
6. intrec (taxable interest received)
7. stcg (short-term capital gains)
8. ltcg (long-term capital gains)
9. pui (primary taxpayer unemployment compensation received)
10. sui (spouse unemployment compensation received)
11. proptax (real estate taxes paid)