casulty floor not set about tax-calculator HOT 2 CLOSED

On Mon, 6 Oct 2014, MattHJensen wrote:

@feenberg the SAS code for setting the floor on the casulty deduction does
not seem to do anything; in particular, it doesn't seem to set the 10% of
agi floor. Am I missing something?

Starting at line 317 in the SAS file you sent over the weekend:

/* Casulty */

if e20500 gt 0 then do;

c37703 = e20500+.1*_posagi;

c20500 = c37703-.1*_posagi;

end;

else do;

c37703 = 0;

c20500 = 0;

end;

Well, the idea is that if c20500 is greater than zero, there must have
been casulty deduction of greater than 10% of posagi. In that case we can
calculate what the original casulty would have been - it is the deduction
plus 10% of agi. Otherwise we don't know anything, and leave the casulty
amount at zero. Can you show an example where SAS doesn't do this?

dan

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Thank you! I misinterpreted e20500 by not following it through to form 4684. Will close issue.

From: feenberg [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 10:37 AM
To: OpenSourcePolicyCenter/Tax-Calculator
Cc: Matt Jensen
Subject: Re: [Tax-Calculator] casulty floor not set (#41)

On Mon, 6 Oct 2014, MattHJensen wrote:

@feenberg the SAS code for setting the floor on the casulty deduction does
not seem to do anything; in particular, it doesn't seem to set the 10% of
agi floor. Am I missing something?

Starting at line 317 in the SAS file you sent over the weekend:

/* Casulty */

if e20500 gt 0 then do;

c37703 = e20500+.1*_posagi;

c20500 = c37703-.1*_posagi;

end;

else do;

c37703 = 0;

c20500 = 0;

end;

Well, the idea is that if c20500 is greater than zero, there must have
been casulty deduction of greater than 10% of posagi. In that case we can
calculate what the original casulty would have been - it is the deduction
plus 10% of agi. Otherwise we don't know anything, and leave the casulty
amount at zero. Can you show an example where SAS doesn't do this?

dan

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