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Base VT Child Care Contribution on net self-employment earnings (Schedule SE Line 6)#8727

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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).

- income = add(tax_unit, period, ["total_self_employment_income"])
+ income = add(tax_unit, period, ["taxable_self_employment_income"])

Result (matches the VT worksheet)

For the #1002 filer ($79,684.13 self-employment income, 2025):

Base × 0.11% Result
Before gross $79,684.13 0.0011 $87.65
After net $73,588.30 (Sch SE L6) 0.0011 $80.95 (worksheet: $81)

Tests

  • Updated the existing unit tests to the net base (e.g. 2025 $10k SE: $11 → $10.16).
  • Added a regression test matching the VT worksheet ($79,684 → $80.95).
  • Updated the taxsim_record_1_2024 integration 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).
  • Full VT suite passes (344 tests).

Note (out of scope)

As flagged in #8725, vt_child_care_contributions is added into vt_income_tax but does not flow into the national state_income_tax aggregator. Whether the contribution belongs in state_income_tax is a separate modeling decision, not addressed here.

Context

Reported by Daniel Feenberg (NBER TAXSIM) in PolicyEngine/policyengine-taxsim#1002.

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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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@DTrim99 DTrim99 marked this pull request as ready for review June 23, 2026 15:20
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VT Child Care Contribution uses total self-employment income instead of Schedule SE Line 6 (net SE earnings)

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