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Add general partner SE income to self-employment tax base #7238

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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
]

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