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Add Kentucky homestead property tax exemption#8309

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  • Adds Kentucky's Homestead Exemption for senior or disabled homeowners using the 2025-2026 exemption amount.
  • Models eligibility, exempt assessed value, and a property-tax reduction using assessed property value and real-estate taxes.
  • Adds focused tests for eligibility, capped exempt value, and tax reduction.

Closes #8196.

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  • /Users/daphnehansell/Documents/GitHub/policyengine-us/.venv/bin/python policyengine_us/tests/test_batched.py policyengine_us/tests/policy/baseline/gov/states/ky/tax/property/homestead_exemption --batches 1
  • /Users/daphnehansell/Documents/GitHub/policyengine-us/.venv/bin/ruff check policyengine_us/variables/gov/states/ky/tax/property/homestead_exemption
  • /Users/daphnehansell/Documents/GitHub/policyengine-us/.venv/bin/python -m pytest policyengine_us/tests/test_parameter_files.py policyengine_us/tests/test_system_import.py

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codecov Bot commented May 14, 2026

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@daphnehanse11 daphnehanse11 marked this pull request as draft May 14, 2026 20:29
@daphnehanse11 daphnehanse11 marked this pull request as ready for review May 18, 2026 20:04
Add ky_homestead_property_tax_reduction to a new
gov.states.ky.tax.income.credits.refundable list and wire
ky_refundable_credits to it. The reduction now flows through
household_refundable_state_tax_credits to household_net_income.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Add Kentucky homestead exemption for older homeowners

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