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#8875 routed Indiana with-children filers to the current-year federal EITC, fixing the frozen-2023 understatement. Childless filers still use the frozen 2023-dollar snapshot in in_eitc.py, which understates the IN EITC by roughly $1–11 per childless filer for TY2024–2025 (10% of the frozen $600 max vs the indexed $632/$649).
The retained split rests on a rationale that does not hold up against the primary sources:
2025 Schedule IN-EIC (State Form 49469, R25/9-25) computes the credit in Section A for all filers: Line A-1 is "the earned income credit from your federal income tax return," multiplied by 10%. Section B is a qualifying-child information schedule, not a computation.
DOR Information Bulletin Add SchXYZTax #92 describes the IRC §32 January 1, 2023 conformity freeze uniformly, with no childless carve-out.
Drop the where(child_count > 0, ...) split in policyengine_us/variables/gov/states/in/tax/income/credits/earned_income_credit/in_eitc.py and use the current-year federal EITC for all filers, updating the childless test expectations (2025 childless: $60.00 → $64.90) and correcting the Section B / ARPA rationale in the code comments.
Summary
#8875 routed Indiana with-children filers to the current-year federal EITC, fixing the frozen-2023 understatement. Childless filers still use the frozen 2023-dollar snapshot in
in_eitc.py, which understates the IN EITC by roughly $1–11 per childless filer for TY2024–2025 (10% of the frozen $600 max vs the indexed $632/$649).The retained split rests on a rationale that does not hold up against the primary sources:
Suggested fix
Drop the
where(child_count > 0, ...)split inpolicyengine_us/variables/gov/states/in/tax/income/credits/earned_income_credit/in_eitc.pyand use the current-year federal EITC for all filers, updating the childless test expectations (2025 childless: $60.00 → $64.90) and correcting the Section B / ARPA rationale in the code comments.Follow-up to #8875 / #8831.