
Contributed to the iza-institute-of-labor-economics/gettsim repository by delivering four features focused on regulatory compliance, tax calculation accuracy, and documentation quality. Updated legal citation formatting and 2024 tax parameters, ensuring correct rounding logic and alignment with current legislation. Enhanced Kinderzuschlag (KiZ) parameter management for 2024–2026, providing year-specific notes to support auditability and financial accuracy. Improved branding consistency by updating the IFO logo and correcting citation titles, supporting clearer external communication. Work emphasized configuration management, technical writing, and data management, using Markdown, YAML, and plaintext to maintain traceable, well-documented changes that facilitate onboarding and future regulatory audits.
Monthly summary for 2025-12 focusing on branding and presentation quality improvements in the gettsim repository. Delivered a Branding Refresh by updating the IFO logo and correcting a citation title typo, via commit ae7bccc0b043d5279c7d3a9603aea2f9e80bf664. This change enhances visual consistency across reports and reduces publication errors, supporting clearer external communications and brand integrity.
Monthly summary for 2025-12 focusing on branding and presentation quality improvements in the gettsim repository. Delivered a Branding Refresh by updating the IFO logo and correcting a citation title typo, via commit ae7bccc0b043d5279c7d3a9603aea2f9e80bf664. This change enhances visual consistency across reports and reduces publication errors, supporting clearer external communications and brand integrity.
Month 2025-01: Delivered KiZ (Kinderzuschlag) parameter updates for 2024–2026 in the gettsim model, including scalar parameter changes and per-year notes explaining the calculation basis under § 6a (2) BKGG to ensure accurate financial calculations for the period. No major bugs fixed this month; focus remained on model accuracy, compliance, and documentation. All changes are traceable to the commit referenced below and aligned with the related work item.
Month 2025-01: Delivered KiZ (Kinderzuschlag) parameter updates for 2024–2026 in the gettsim model, including scalar parameter changes and per-year notes explaining the calculation basis under § 6a (2) BKGG to ensure accurate financial calculations for the period. No major bugs fixed this month; focus remained on model accuracy, compliance, and documentation. All changes are traceable to the commit referenced below and aligned with the related work item.
December 2024: Delivered critical updates to gettsim for regulatory compliance and accurate tax calculation. Focused on updating BGBl citation formatting and 2024 tax parameters with corrected rounding rules. These changes strengthen regulatory compliance, improve calculation accuracy, and enhance maintainability.
December 2024: Delivered critical updates to gettsim for regulatory compliance and accurate tax calculation. Focused on updating BGBl citation formatting and 2024 tax parameters with corrected rounding rules. These changes strengthen regulatory compliance, improve calculation accuracy, and enhance maintainability.

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