{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-source-economics/Tax-Calculator/issues/434","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-source-economics/Tax-Calculator/issues/434/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-source-economics/Tax-Calculator/issues/434/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-source-economics/Tax-Calculator/issues/434/events","html_url":"https://github.com/open-source-economics/Tax-Calculator/pull/434","id":114512540,"number":434,"title":"Add positive spouse earnings to input samples used in validation tests","user":{"login":"martinholmer","id":12170745,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12170745?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/martinholmer","html_url":"https://github.com/martinholmer","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/martinholmer/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/martinholmer/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/martinholmer/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/martinholmer/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/martinholmer/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/martinholmer/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/martinholmer/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/martinholmer/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/martinholmer/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":1,"created_at":"2015-11-02T02:30:12Z","updated_at":"2015-11-02T15:33:48Z","closed_at":null,"pull_request":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-source-economics/Tax-Calculator/pulls/434","html_url":"https://github.com/open-source-economics/Tax-Calculator/pull/434","diff_url":"https://github.com/open-source-economics/Tax-Calculator/pull/434.diff","patch_url":"https://github.com/open-source-economics/Tax-Calculator/pull/434.patch"},"body":"The original version of make-in.tcl generated input samples in which all married couples had spouse earnings set to zero.  This was done because at that time the Tax-Calculator did not correctly calculate FICA taxes for couples in which combined earnings were more than roughly $120,000, so spouse earnings would have generated many differences with Internet TAXSIM results that were caused by a known problem that was in the process of being corrected.\r\n\r\nNow that the Tax-Calculator computes FICA taxes correctly, the make-in.tcl program has been revised to generate random samples of tax filing units that contain couples with positive taxpayer and positive spouse earnings.  Using these six new input samples, there are a number of significant income tax liability (TAXSIM output variable 4) differences that need to be investigated.  For example, for the a13.in sample there are now 30 (out of 100,000) differences with the largest being $315.75 (for unit with id 3776).  And there are 400 differences in the c13.in sample.  Before adding positive spouse earnings, there were no differences (greater than one cent in absolute value) in any of the six samples."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-source-economics/Tax-Calculator/issues/comments/153054107","html_url":"https://github.com/open-source-economics/Tax-Calculator/pull/434#issuecomment-153054107","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/open-source-economics/Tax-Calculator/issues/434","id":153054107,"user":{"login":"MattHJensen","id":8301092,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8301092?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/MattHJensen","html_url":"https://github.com/MattHJensen","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MattHJensen/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MattHJensen/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MattHJensen/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MattHJensen/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MattHJensen/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MattHJensen/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MattHJensen/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MattHJensen/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/MattHJensen/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-11-02T15:33:48Z","updated_at":"2015-11-02T15:33:48Z","body":"@GoFroggyRun, could you review this pr? "}}