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Problem
The self-employment tax base per 26 USC 1402(a) should include general partners' distributive share of partnership trade/business income. Currently we exclude all partnership income from SE tax.
What the law says
SE income includes:
- ✅ Schedule C net profit (
self_employment_income) - implemented - ✅ Schedule F net profit (
farm_income) - implemented - ❌ General partners' distributive share of partnership ordinary income - not implemented
- ✅ S-corp distributions excluded - fixed in PR Remove s_corp_self_employment_income from SE tax base #7237
- ✅ Limited partners excluded (except guaranteed payments) - correct by omission
Current behavior
taxable_self_employment_income only includes:
SEI_SOURCES = [
"self_employment_income",
"farm_income",
]This understates SE tax for general partners who have partnership trade/business income.
Implementation
Depends on PolicyEngine/policyengine-us-data#480 to provide data distinguishing:
- General vs limited partner status
- Active trade/business vs passive investment partnership income
Once data is available, add to taxable_self_employment_income:
SEI_SOURCES = [
"self_employment_income",
"farm_income",
"general_partner_se_income", # new variable
]Related issues
- Remove
s_corp_self_employment_incomevariable and update SE tax base #5273 - Remove S-corp from SE tax (PR Remove s_corp_self_employment_income from SE tax base #7237) ✅ - Rename
partnership_s_corp_incometopartnership_s_corp_distributions#5272 - Rename partnership_s_corp_income - Add passive activity loss limitation rules #5274 - Passive activity loss rules (Section 469) - separate issue for income tax
- Add general partner vs limited partner distinction for SE tax policyengine-us-data#480 - Data needed for partner type distinction
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