Tax-Calculator

The Tax-Calculator simulates the US federal individual income tax system. In conjunction with micro data that represent the US population and a set of behavioral assumptions, the Tax-Calculator can be used to conduct revenue scoring and distributional analyses of tax policies. The Tax-Calculator is written in Python, an interpreted language that can execute on Windows, Mac, or Linux.

This documentation is about developing Tax-Calculator. If you just want to use Tax-Calculator to conduct tax analysis, read this user documentation.

If you are relying on Tax-Calculator capabilities in your own project, be sure to read the definition of the Tax-Calculator Public API.

Contents

• Contributor Guide
  • Setup Python
  • Setup Git
  • Workflow
  • Simple Usage
• Policy Parameter Naming and Placing Conventions
  • Tax Categories
  • Parameter Role
  • Examples
  • Placing New Parameters in current_law_policy.json
• Tax-Calculator Public API
  • taxcalc.Behavior
  • taxcalc.Calculator
  • taxcalc.cli.tc
  • taxcalc.Consumption
  • taxcalc.decorators
  • taxcalc.dropq.dropq
  • taxcalc.functions
  • taxcalc.Growdiff
  • taxcalc.Growfactors
  • taxcalc.macro_elasticity
  • taxcalc.ParametersBase
  • taxcalc.Policy
  • taxcalc.Records
  • taxcalc.TaxCalcIO
  • taxcalc.utils
• Micro Data
  • Description
  • Documentation
• Disclaimer
• License
• Contributors
  • Origins of Tax-Calculator
  • Contributors to Tax-Calculator