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Does TAXSIM-35 omit the §1402(a)(12) 92.35% adjustment in Additional Medicare Tax on self-employment income? #846

@PavelMakarchuk

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For a single filer with $600K of self-employment income (and no wages) in 2024:

PolicyEngine TAXSIM-35 Form 8959
Additional Medicare Tax $3,186.90 $3,600.00 $3,186.90

TAXSIM's $3,600 appears to equal 0.009 × ($600,000 − $200,000) — the threshold applied to gross SE earnings. Form 8959 Part II instead applies the threshold to Schedule SE Part I line 6, which is gross × 0.9235 per IRC §1402(a)(12):

Line Description Value
4 SE income from Schedule SE line 6 (= gross × 0.9235) $554,100
5 Threshold (single) $200,000
6 Medicare wages from Part I line 3 $0
7 Line 5 − Line 6 $200,000
8 Line 4 − Line 7 $354,100
9 Line 8 × 0.009 $3,186.90

The 92.35% factor comes from the §1402(a)(12) 7.65% deduction from gross SE earnings, which defines "net earnings from self-employment" → "self-employment income" in §1402(b). §1401(b)(2) applies the 0.9% rate to this adjusted base, not gross earnings.

Reproduce:

```
taxsimid,year,state,mstat,page,sage,depx,pwages,swages,psemp,idtl
1,2024,0,1,40,0,0,0,0,600000,2
```

TAXSIM returns `fiitax = 172,396.13`, which equals `168,796.13` (v19) + `3,600.00` (implied Additional Medicare). The 0.9% computation ignores the 92.35% adjustment.

Question: Should TAXSIM-35 apply the §1402(a)(12) 7.65% deduction before comparing SE income to the Additional Medicare Tax threshold, as Form 8959 Part II lines 4–9 require?

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