PolicyEngine / PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk
Add one-off £500 tax-free payment to WTC recipients
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Description
Per https://www.litrg.org.uk/tax-guides/coronavirus-guidance/tax-credits-and-coronavirus
A £20 a week temporary increase to the basic element of working tax credit for the 2020-21 tax year. This increase was removed from 6 April 2021 and replaced by a separate, one-off £500 tax-free payment for working households receiving tax credits.
The 20/week is modeled, but not the one-off payment:
https://github.com/PolicyEngine/openfisca-uk/blob/d433364a971abac9a6e5c50b0867ef2315a68087/openfisca_uk/parameters/benefit/tax_credits/working_tax_credit/elements/basic.yaml#L5-L9
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the working tax credit basic element parameters in openfisca_uk/parameters/benefit/tax_credits/working_tax_credit/elements/basic.yaml, especially the linked lines, and review the cited tax-credit guidance. Add the one-off £500 tax-free payment for eligible working tax credit households, with the applicable timing and eligibility represented in the model.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100