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)

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()

Command line interface to taxbrain package

Parameters:

None

Return type:

None

taxbrain.cli.make_tables(tb, year, outpath)

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