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Editorial policy

Last updated 2026-09-25

The standard

Every statement about the law on this site must be traceable to a numbered provision in an official document. If a claim cannot be tied to a section, it does not get published.

Two kinds of page, two different rules

Generated pages

Section pages, change pages and document records are produced by software from the official PDF.No interpretation is added to them. Statutory wording is reproduced verbatim, never paraphrased and never summarised in place. This is deliberate: automated paraphrasing of legal text is where subtle and dangerous errors come from.

Written pages

Question pages explain what the law says for one kind of taxpayer. They are drafted with AI tools from the text of the latest consolidated edition of the law, never from memory, and every legal point names the section it relies on. Each page is then checked against the sections it cites: every statement, rate, threshold and worked example. Anything the text does not support is removed. A page that has not had this check yet says so, so you know to confirm each point against the linked section. Worked examples use invented amounts and say so. Each page links every section it relies on so you can check the reasoning against the source.

Sourcing

  • Primary sources only for statements of law: the law itself, as published by FBR.
  • Every page links the sections it relies on and FBR's own copy of the source file.
  • Consolidation dates are shown, because a statement true in June 2025 may not be true later.
  • Where the source is ambiguous, the page says so rather than resolving the ambiguity silently.

What is deliberately not claimed

The publisher holds no legal, tax or accounting qualification and does not present as an expert. Author biographies carry no credentials, and structured data on this site contains no credential fields. Stating this openly matters more than appearing authoritative.

Corrections

Errors are treated as defects. When one is reported and confirmed:

  1. If it came from the generation process, the program is fixed and all affected pages are regenerated, so the same error is corrected everywhere rather than on one page.
  2. If it is on a question page, the page is edited and its review date changes.
  3. Where a correction changes the meaning of something previously published, the change is noted on the page rather than made silently.

Report errors through the contact page.

No commercial influence

Content is not sponsored, and no payment influences what is published or how a provision is explained. If that changes, it will be disclosed on the affected pages.

AI use, stated plainly

Software, including AI tooling, is used to extract, transcribe, structure and draft content. Statutory text is never composed: it is copied from the source document, or, where a page is a scanned image, transcribed from that image and marked as transcribed. Words that cannot be read are marked [illegible] rather than guessed, and where extraction fails the page shows that the text is unavailable rather than filling the gap. Question pages are drafted with AI tools and checked against the sections they cite before publication, as described above.