Remove use of "taxable returns" statistics from reweighting calculations #148
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Fixes #147 and fixes #106.
These #148 changes eliminate the need for the changes made in PR #143, so those CTC-related #143 changes have been removed from the code.
In keeping with the process recommended in issue #146, here are the differences between the 2023 tax expenditure estimates on this branch (<) versus on the master branch (>):
Now both the CTC and EITC tax expenditures are above those reported by the federal agencies. But this is to be expected because our estimates assume 100% participation in these refundable credits while the federal agencies assume IRS-provided credit-specific participation rates. Here is what a recent JCT tax expenditure report says about this:
A recent IRS table shows a national EITC participation rate of 76.3 percent for 2020 (and upwards toward 80% in years before 2020):