Apply tax brackets to the data and impute new tax variable

Usage

match_tax_brackets(
  dta,
  base_var,
  rules,
  new_var,
  calc_drop = TRUE,
  low_thld_rule = `>`,
  up_thld_rule = `<=`
)

dta: original data set to compute tax levels
base_var: string variable name that should be used used as income
rules: data frame with tax brackets rules returned with `make_tax_brackets`
new_var: string of the new variable to create based on the formula cum_tax + (base_var - lower) * rate
calc_drop: logical TRUE as default to compute the tax level and drop all auxiliary variables
low_thld_rule: rule for comparing income to the lower threshold. usually `>` (default) or `>`.
up_thld_rule: rule for comparing income to the upper threshold. usually `<=` (default) or `<`.