Base VT Child Care Contribution on net self-employment earnings (Schedule SE Line 6)#8727
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The Vermont Child Care Contribution for self-employed individuals was computed on gross self-employment income, but the Child Care Contribution Worksheet applies the 0.11% rate to net earnings from self-employment (federal Schedule SE, Line 6), i.e. taxable_self_employment_income. Updates the existing unit tests (now on the net base) and the taxsim_record_1_2024 integration test, and adds a regression test matching the worksheet ($79,684 gross -> $73,588 net -> $80.95). Surfaced via PolicyEngine/policyengine-taxsim#1002. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fixes #8725. Draft for review.
What
The Vermont Child Care Contribution for self-employed individuals was computed on gross self-employment income, but the Child Care Contribution Worksheet applies the 0.11% rate to net earnings from self-employment (federal Schedule SE, Line 6) —
taxable_self_employment_income(92.35% of net SE profit).Result (matches the VT worksheet)
For the #1002 filer ($79,684.13 self-employment income, 2025):
Tests
taxsim_record_1_2024integration test:vt_income_tax$7,963 → $7,958.51 (the $4.49 change is entirely the corrected CCC base — old CCC $60.50 → new $55.87 on $110k SE income; verified no other effect).Note (out of scope)
As flagged in #8725,
vt_child_care_contributionsis added intovt_income_taxbut does not flow into the nationalstate_income_taxaggregator. Whether the contribution belongs instate_income_taxis a separate modeling decision, not addressed here.Context
Reported by Daniel Feenberg (NBER TAXSIM) in PolicyEngine/policyengine-taxsim#1002.
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