For some taxes in the US like Medicare and Social Security, tax is
collected at a certain rate only up to some income limit. For example, I
would have to pay 6.2% social security tax for the first $147,000 I earn in
2022, but I would not have to pay any social security tax for income over
that amount. Similarly for Medicare, I have to pay 1.45% tax on all income,
but for income above $200,000 I have to pay an addition 0.9% in Medicare
taxes.
I would like to calculate the tax I owe in both of these scenarios. I'm
using automatic transactions and virtual accounts to calculate my income
tax liability in general, but in these particular cases I'm struggling with
only calculating the tax up to a certain income amount or only taxing
income above a certain amount.
I've tried something like this for the Medicare example, but it doesn't
work as abs(O) is dealing with the transaction amount, and not the total
balance of the account:
```
account Assets:Bank
account Income:Hooli
account Liabilities:Taxes:Medicare
account Liabilities:Taxes:Medicare:Additional
= expr "account =~ /Income:Hooli/ and abs(O)>200000"
(Liabilities:Taxes:Medicare:Additional) .009
= expr "account =~ /Income:Hooli/"
(Liabilities:Taxes:Medicare) .0145
2022-04-15 * Payroll
Income:Hooli -150,000 USD
Assets:Bank
2022-04-01 * Payroll
Income:Hooli -150,000 USD
Assets:Bank
```
Is there a way I can condition the automatic transactions based off the
total account balance instead of the transaction amount?
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