Remove self-employment tax from income tax total #1021
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Before this pull request the self-employment tax was incorrectly included in both the payroll tax total and the income tax total. This pull request removes the self-employment tax from the income tax total, leaving it in the payroll tax total. As a result of this bug fix, aggregate income tax revenue for 2013 declines by about $44.7 billion, which is a decline of about 3.6 percent. And there are also changes in the marginal tax rate histograms for the
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