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SPMSTTAX represents an SPM Unit's total state tax liability, rounded to the nearest dollar. This amount is the same for all members of each SPM family, even if the SPM unit contains more than one tax unit.

Because the ACS does not collect information about a household's tax obligations or if the respondent even filed taxes, the Census Bureau used the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)'s TAXSIM tool to generate values for SPMFEDTAXBC, SPMFEDTAXAC, SPMEITC, SPMFICA, and SPMSTTAX.

For detailed information about how the Census Bureau derived these measures, please refer to the Supplemental Poverty Measure using the American Community Survey working paper.