Zero Maine's 2025 affordability payment in siitax comparisons (#1056)#1065
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H.P. 1491 (132nd Leg.) Part T creates a one-time $300-per-adult direct payment for TY2025 filers, mailed by the assessor from a Special Revenue Fund in 2026-27. PolicyEngine models it as a refundable credit (me_affordability_payment) so it lands in me_refundable_credits and therefore siitax, but it is not a 1040ME line item and TAXSIM/TaxAct never report it, leaving every 2025 ME record $300-600 more negative than the actual return. Zero it in the dataset like other PE-modeled non-return amounts (SSI, SNAP, AK PFD). Fixes the $600 component of taxsim #1056 (MFJ 23/24, $10.5K wages: siitax -841.62 -> -241.62; TaxAct return shows -562, with the remaining gap tracked in policyengine-us #8927 and #8928). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
me_affordability_paymentto the runner's zeroed-variables set, alongside SSI/SNAP/AK PFD and the other PolicyEngine-modeled amounts that do not appear on an actual return.siitaxand left every 2025 ME record $300–600 more negative than the actual return.On the #1056 record: siitax −841.62 → −241.62. The TaxAct return shows −562; the remaining gap is two policyengine-us bugs tracked separately (missing §5219-S young-filer Maine EIC, PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#8927; 2025 STFC base $220 vs $215, PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#8928). Once those merge, the record reconciles: 324.50 + 21.62 + 215 ≈ 562.
Fixes the emulator component of #1056.
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pytest tests/test_me_affordability_payment.py— 1 passedruff format --checkclean🤖 Generated with Claude Code