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April 2012

No longer tax exempt: income tax calculation in the Consumer Expenditure Survey

Aylin Kumcu

BLS has developed an experimental federal income tax calculator that estimates taxes for Consumer Expenditure Survey participants to help address high nonresponse rates, unreliable reporting, and time-frame ambiguity; this calculator could improve the quality of the aftertax income data in the survey.

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