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Add Alabama senior homestead relief#8304

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Summary

  • Add Alabama's senior homestead property tax exemption for the mandatory age-65 state-levy component.
  • Parameterize the age threshold and 6.5-mill state property tax rate.
  • Add focused eligibility and amount tests.
  • Keep the rule household-calculator-only for now; this PR does not wire the relief into refundable or property-tax-credit aggregates while assessed-property-value data readiness is unresolved.

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  • PYTHONPATH=. /Users/daphnehansell/Documents/GitHub/policyengine-us/.venv/bin/python -m policyengine_core.scripts.policyengine_command test policyengine_us/tests/policy/baseline/gov/states/al/tax/property/senior_homestead_exemption -c policyengine_us
  • /Users/daphnehansell/Documents/GitHub/policyengine-us/.venv/bin/ruff check policyengine_us/variables/gov/states/al/tax/property/senior_homestead_exemption policyengine_us/variables/gov/states/al/tax/income/al_refundable_credits.py

Closes #8192

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@daphnehanse11 daphnehanse11 marked this pull request as draft May 14, 2026 20:29
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Add al_senior_homestead_exemption to a new
gov.states.al.tax.income.credits.refundable list and wire
al_refundable_credits to it. The exemption now flows through
household_refundable_state_tax_credits to household_net_income.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@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.

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Add Alabama senior homestead relief (statewide components only)

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