Graham MacDonald

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A Synthetic Supplemental Public-Use File of Low-Income Information Return Data: Methodology, Utility, and Privacy Implications

The Statistics of Income division of the Internal Revenue Service releases an annual public-use file of individual income tax returns that is invaluable to tax analysts in government agencies, nonprofit research organizations, and the private sector. However, the Statistics of Income division...

November 11, 2020

Claire Bowen Victoria L. Bryant Leonard E. Burman Surachai Khitatrakun Graham MacDonald Robert McClelland Philip Stallworth Kyle Ueyama Aaron R. Williams Noah Zwiefel

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Individual Taxes

Safely Expanding Research Access to Administrative Tax Data: Creating a Synthetic Public Use File and a Validation Server

Administrative tax data contain a wealth of information that is potentially valuable for research and analysis. However, the legal and ethical imperative to protect taxpayer privacy has restricted their access to a small number of government analysts and select researchers. We propose to develop...

October 25, 2018

Leonard E. Burman Alex Engler Surachai Khitatrakun James R. Nunns Sarah Armstrong John Iselin Graham MacDonald

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A Synthetic Supplemental Public-Use File of Low-Income Information Return Data: Methodology, Utility, and Privacy Implications

Safely Expanding Research Access to Administrative Tax Data: Creating a Synthetic Public Use File and a Validation Server