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Summary

  • Add Tennessee Property Tax Relief for Elderly Homeowners.
  • Parameterize age, residential assessment rate, income limits, and qualifying property value cap.
  • Include 2025 and 2026 values: income limit 37,530 in 2025 and 38,470 in 2026; property value cap 32,700 for both years.
  • Add focused eligibility and amount tests, and include the relief in state property tax credits from 2025.

Modeling notes

  • Uses real_estate_taxes to preserve local tax-rate differences.
  • Converts the published full-market-value cap to an assessed-value cap using Tennessee's 25% residential assessment rate.
  • Uses adjusted gross income as the modeled tax-unit income proxy.

Tests

  • uv run python policyengine_us/tests/test_batched.py policyengine_us/tests/policy/baseline/gov/states/tn/tax/property/elderly_property_tax_relief --batches 1
  • .venv/bin/python -m pytest policyengine_us/tests/test_parameter_files.py policyengine_us/tests/test_system_import.py policyengine_us/tests/code_health/parameters.py policyengine_us/tests/code_health/variable_names.py
  • /Users/daphnehansell/Documents/GitHub/policyengine-us/.venv/bin/ruff format --check .
  • /Users/daphnehansell/Documents/GitHub/policyengine-us/.venv/bin/ruff check .

Closes #8203

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@daphnehanse11 daphnehanse11 marked this pull request as draft May 14, 2026 20:29
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@MaxGhenis MaxGhenis marked this pull request as draft May 19, 2026 13:23
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Converted this to draft for the same data-readiness reason as #8303, but scoped to property tax data. This PR relies on assessed_property_value, which is currently only a PolicyEngine-US input variable and is not present/imputed in policyengine-us-data; rent and real_estate_taxes are data-backed, but assessed value is not. The rule tests are still useful, but baseline wiring into refundable/property-tax-credit aggregates should wait until we either add an assessed-value data/imputation path or revise the formula to rely only on data-backed inputs.

daphnehanse11 and others added 3 commits May 19, 2026 12:18
Create tn_refundable_credits variable and refundable.yaml list, and
add tn_refundable_credits to household_refundable_state_credits. The
relief now flows through household_refundable_state_tax_credits to
household_net_income, mirroring the pattern used for WA Working
Families Tax Credit (also a state without an income tax).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@daphnehanse11 daphnehanse11 force-pushed the codex/tn-elderly-property-tax-relief branch from c276acb to 771f837 Compare May 19, 2026 16:20
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Add Tennessee Property Tax Relief for Elderly Homeowners

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