taxcalc
Project description
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.
Disclaimer
Results will change as the underlying models improve. A fundamental reason for adopting open source methods in this project is so that people from all backgrounds can contribute to the models that our society uses to assess economic policy; when community-contributed improvements are incorporated, the model will produce different results.
Getting Started
At the moment there are two ways to start using the Tax Calculator.
The first way is install the Tax Calculator on your computer. Do this by following the instructions in our [Contributor Guide](http://taxcalc.readthedocs.org/en/latest/contributor_guide.html).
The second way is to access the Tax Calculator through our web application, [TaxBrain](http://www.ospc.org/taxbrain).
Conda Package for Advanced Anaconda Users
Conda taxcalc packages are created for every release of the Tax Calculator. We use them to install taxcalc on Amazon Web Services (AWS) instances that run the TaxBrain web application. You can get the latest release of the taxcalc package to run on your computer via the command conda install -c ospc taxcalc. Note that this package does not include a micro data set that represents the US population.
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