Tax-Brain Command Line Interface¶

cli

taxbrain.cli¶

Command line interface for the Tax-Brain package

taxbrain.cli.cli_core(startyear, endyear, data, usecps, reform, behavior, assump, baseline, outdir, name, make_report, author)[source]¶

Core logic for the CLI

Parameters

startyear (int) – year to start analysis
endyear (int) – last year for analysis
data (str or Pandas DataFrame) – path to or DataFrame with data for Tax-Calculator
usecps (bool) – whether to use the CPS or (if False) the PUF-based file
reform (dict) – parameter changes for reform run in Tax-Calculator
behavior (dict) – behavioral assumptions for Behavioral-Responses
assump (dict) – consumption assumptions
base_policy (dict) – parameter changes (relative to current law baseline) for baseline policy
verbose (bool) – indicator for printing of output

Returns

reports saved to disk at path specified by outdir

Return type

None

taxbrain.cli.cli_main()[source]¶

Command line interface to taxbrain package

Parameters: None –
Returns
Return type: None

taxbrain.cli.make_tables(tb, year, outpath)[source]¶

Make and write all of the tables for a given year

Parameters

tb (TaxBrain object) – instance of a TaxBrain object
year (int) – year to produce tables for
outpath (str) – path to save output to

Returns

tables saved to disk

Return type

None