taxcalc 4.3.1__tar.gz → 4.3.2__tar.gz

{taxcalc-4.3.1 → taxcalc-4.3.2}/PKG-INFO

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Metadata-Version: 2.1
 Name: taxcalc
-Version: 4.3.1
+Version: 4.3.2
 Summary: taxcalc
 Home-page: https://github.com/PSLmodels/Tax-Calculator
 Download-URL: https://github.com/PSLmodels/Tax-Calculator

{taxcalc-4.3.1 → taxcalc-4.3.2}/docs/about/releases.md

@@ -4,6 +4,26 @@ Go [here](https://github.com/PSLmodels/Tax-Calculator/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclose
 for a complete commit history.
 
 
+2024-11-08 Release 4.3.2
+------------------------
+(last merged pull request is
+[#2834](https://github.com/PSLmodels/Tax-Calculator/pull/2834))
+
+**This is a bug-fix release.**
+
+**API Changes**
+
+**New Features**
+- Add Policy.tmd_constructor() static method for convenience when using Python API
+[[#2834](https://github.com/PSLmodels/Tax-Calculator/pull/2834) by Martin Holmer]
+
+**Bug Fixes**
+- Fix handling of tmd_growfactors.csv file
+[[#2832](https://github.com/PSLmodels/Tax-Calculator/pull/2832) by Martin Holmer]
+- Fix `tc` reform documentation output
+[[#2833](https://github.com/PSLmodels/Tax-Calculator/pull/2833) by Martin Holmer]
+
+
 2024-10-28 Release 4.3.1
 ------------------------
 (last merged pull request is

{taxcalc-4.3.1 → taxcalc-4.3.2}/docs/index.md

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ The cross-model validation work with NBER's TAXSIM-27 model is described
 
 ## Latest release
 
-{doc}`4.3.1 (2024-10-28) <about/releases>`
+{doc}`4.3.2 (2024-11-08) <about/releases>`
 
 If you are already using Tax-Calculator, upgrade using the following command:
 

{taxcalc-4.3.1 → taxcalc-4.3.2}/docs/usage/data.md

@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ available only to Tax-Calculator users who have purchased their own
 version of the 2015 IRS-SOI PUF.  For those users, those three files
 are avaiable from the tax-microdata repository.  These three tmd files
 can be used with the Tax-Calculator Python API (using the 
-`Records.tmd_constructor()` static method) or with the Tax-Calculator
-CLI tool, `tc`.
+`Records.tmd_constructor()` and `Policy.tmd_constructor()`static methods)
+or with the Tax-Calculator CLI tool, `tc`.
 
 ## Using other data with Tax-Calculator
 

{taxcalc-4.3.1 → taxcalc-4.3.2}/docs/usage/tcja_after_2025.md

@@ -86,23 +86,12 @@ To analyze your reform relative to a reform that extends all TCJA
 temporary provisions beyond 2025, you would execute this command:
 
 ```
-tc z.csv 2026 --exact --tables --baseline ext.json --reform x.json
+tc z.csv 2026 --exact --tables --baseline ext.json --reform ext.json+x.json
 ```
 
-The tables would be in the `z-26-ext-x-#-tab.text` output file
+The tables would be in the `z-26-ext-ext+x-#-tab.text` output file
 generated by this `tc` run.
 
-Also, remember that you can simulate a _compound reform_ using the
-following syntax:
-
-```
-tc z.csv 2026 --exact --tables --baseline ext.json --reform x.json+y.json
-```
-
-where `y.json` contains a reform with additional provisions not
-included in your `x.json` reform file.  The resulting table output
-would be in a file named `z-26-ext-x+y-#-tab.text`.
-
 And finally, you might consider creating a reform file called
 `end.json` that contains just the two characters `{}`.  This is a null
 reform, which is equivalent to current-law policy, that could be used

{taxcalc-4.3.1 → taxcalc-4.3.2}/setup.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from setuptools import setup
 with open("README.md") as f:
     longdesc = f.read()
 
-version = "4.3.1"
+version = "4.3.2"
 
 config = {
     "description": "Tax Calculator",

{taxcalc-4.3.1 → taxcalc-4.3.2}/taxcalc/__init__.py

@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ from taxcalc.taxcalcio import *
 from taxcalc.utils import *
 from taxcalc.cli import *
 
-__version__ = '4.3.1'
+__version__ = '4.3.2'
 __min_python3_version__ = 10
 __max_python3_version__ = 12

{taxcalc-4.3.1 → taxcalc-4.3.2}/taxcalc/calculator.py

@@ -698,7 +698,8 @@ class Calculator():
                                   self.policy_param('FICA_ss_trt_employee') +
                                   self.policy_param('FICA_mc_trt_employer') +
                                   self.policy_param('FICA_mc_trt_employee')),
-                           0.5 * (self.policy_param('FICA_mc_trt_employer') + self.policy_param('FICA_mc_trt_employee')))
+                           0.5 * (self.policy_param('FICA_mc_trt_employer') +
+                                  self.policy_param('FICA_mc_trt_employee')))
         else:
             adj = 0.0
         # compute marginal tax rates
@@ -1189,11 +1190,10 @@ class Calculator():
                 for pname in baseline.keys():
                     upda_value = getattr(updated, pname)
                     base_value = getattr(baseline, pname)
+                    is_array = isinstance(upda_value, np.ndarray)
                     if (
-                        (isinstance(upda_value, np.ndarray) and
-                         np.allclose(upda_value, base_value)) or
-                        (not isinstance(upda_value, np.ndarray) and
-                         upda_value != base_value)
+                        (is_array and not np.allclose(upda_value, base_value))
+                        or (is_array == False and upda_value != base_value)
                     ):
                         params_with_diff.append(pname)
                 if params_with_diff:
@@ -1248,7 +1248,7 @@ class Calculator():
                         else:  # if baseline is GrowDiff object
                             # each GrowDiff parameter has zero as default value
                             doc += '  baseline_value: 0.0\n'
-            del mdata_base
+                    del mdata_base
             return doc
 
         # begin main logic of reform_documentation

{taxcalc-4.3.1 → taxcalc-4.3.2}/taxcalc/growfactors.py

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ class GrowFactors():
     which is for use with puf and cps data from the taxdata repository.
     """
 
-    PACKAGE_FILE_NAMES = ['growfactors.csv', 'tmd_growfactors.csv']
+    PACKAGE_FILE_NAMES = ['growfactors.csv']
     FILE_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
 
     VALID_NAMES = set(['ABOOK', 'ACGNS', 'ACPIM', 'ACPIU',

{taxcalc-4.3.1 → taxcalc-4.3.2}/taxcalc/policy.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Tax-Calculator federal tax policy Policy class.
 
 import os
 import json
+from pathlib import Path
 import numpy as np
 from taxcalc.parameters import Parameters
 from taxcalc.growfactors import GrowFactors
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ class Policy(Parameters):
     # (3) specify which Policy parameters are wage (rather than price) indexed
     WAGE_INDEXED_PARAMS = ['SS_Earnings_c', 'SS_Earnings_thd']
 
-    def __init__(self, gfactors=None, only_reading_defaults=False, **kwargs):
+    def __init__(self, gfactors=None, **kwargs):
         # put JSON contents of DEFAULTS_FILE_NAME into self._vals dictionary
         super().__init__()
         # handle gfactors argument
@@ -92,7 +93,6 @@ class Policy(Parameters):
             raise ValueError('gfactors is not None or a GrowFactors instance')
         # read default parameters and initialize
         syr = Policy.JSON_START_YEAR
-        lyr = Policy.LAST_BUDGET_YEAR
         nyrs = Policy.DEFAULT_NUM_YEARS
         self._inflation_rates = None
         self._wage_growth_rates = None
@@ -101,6 +101,19 @@ class Policy(Parameters):
                         Policy.REDEFINED_PARAMS,
                         Policy.WAGE_INDEXED_PARAMS, **kwargs)
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def tmd_constructor(growfactors_path):  # pragma: no cover
+        """
+        Static method returns a Policy object instantiated with TMD
+        input data.  This convenience method works in a analogous way
+        to Policy(), which returns a Policy object instantiated with
+        non-TMD input data.
+        """
+        assert isinstance(growfactors_path, Path)
+        gf_filename = str(growfactors_path)
+        tmd_growfactors = GrowFactors(growfactors_filename=gf_filename)
+        return Policy(gfactors=tmd_growfactors)
+
     @staticmethod
     def read_json_reform(obj):
         """
@@ -129,7 +142,7 @@ class Policy(Parameters):
             Policy.DEFAULTS_FILE_PATH,
             Policy.DEFAULTS_FILE_NAME
         )
-        with open(path) as f:
+        with open(path, 'r',  encoding='utf-8') as f:
             defaults = json.loads(f.read())  # pylint: disable=protected-access
         return [k for k in defaults if k != "schema"]
 

{taxcalc-4.3.1 → taxcalc-4.3.2}/taxcalc/reforms/ext.json

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // REFORM TO EXTEND TEMPORARY TCJA PROVISIONS BEYOND 2025
-// USING TAX-CALCULATOR 4.3.1
+// USING TAX-CALCULATOR 4.3.2
 // WITH 2025-to-2026 INDEXING FACTOR = 1.022000
 //  AND 2028-to-2029 INDEXING FACTOR = 1.019400
 {

{taxcalc-4.3.1 → taxcalc-4.3.2}/taxcalc/tests/test_taxcalcio.py

@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def fixture_reformfile1():
         "II_em": { // personal exemption amount (see indexing changes below)
           "2016": 6000,
           "2018": 7500,
-          "2020": 9000},
+          "2021": 9000},
         "II_em-indexed": { // personal exemption amount indexing status
           "2016": false, // values in future years are same as this year value
           "2018": true // values in future years indexed with this year as base

{taxcalc-4.3.1 → taxcalc-4.3.2}/taxcalc.egg-info/PKG-INFO

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Metadata-Version: 2.1
 Name: taxcalc
-Version: 4.3.1
+Version: 4.3.2
 Summary: taxcalc
 Home-page: https://github.com/PSLmodels/Tax-Calculator
 Download-URL: https://github.com/PSLmodels/Tax-Calculator