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Impute child/dependent-care expenses above current-law caps
In the puf.csv data, the value of e32800 is capped at either $3000 (for one qualifying dependent) or $6000 (for two or more qualifying dependents). Reforms that increase the maximum allowable Form 2441 credit cannot be analyzed given this capping, as discussed in Tax-Calculator issue 2361.
All $3000 and $6000 values need to be replaced by values above those caps. There are simple econometric methods to estimate the above-cap values or those kinds of methods could be combined with supplementary data. The above-cap value imputation logic would be implemented in the finalprep.py file.