TaxGuided

Editorial Standards

Last updated: June 10, 2026

Tax content affects real filing decisions, so we hold it to a higher bar than ordinary web writing. This page describes how content on TaxGuided.com is sourced, reviewed, and corrected.

Sourcing

Every substantive claim on this site should trace to a primary source. For U.S. tax content, that means the Internal Revenue Code and Treasury regulations (via uscode.house.gov and the eCFR), IRS publications and the Internal Revenue Bulletin, the Federal Register, and published court opinions. For China tax content, the State Taxation Administration. For international frameworks, the OECD and the official texts of tax treaties.

Secondary sources — news coverage, commentary, other tax sites — can point us toward a topic, but we never paraphrase them as authority. If we cannot find the primary source behind a claim, the claim does not run.

Review Process

Drafts are reviewed against their cited primary sources before publication. YMYL pages (pages that could affect a tax position) display a "Last reviewed" date so readers can judge freshness.

When the law materially changes, affected pages are flagged for re-review. We track changes through the IRS Internal Revenue Bulletin, the Federal Register, and State Taxation Administration bulletins via our daily regulation sync, so a change in the source material triggers a look at the pages that rely on it.

Automation Disclosure

Some of our news summaries are machine-assisted: drafts are generated from official government feeds, then constrained by validation rules (relevance scoring, length and structure checks) and editorial spot-checks before they appear on the site. Every machine-assisted item links to the underlying official source so you can read the original document yourself, and machine-assisted items are labeled as such.

Our regulation feed is synced daily from official IRS and China State Taxation Administration sources. The sync pulls from government publications directly — it does not scrape secondary coverage.

What We Will Not Publish

  • Content we cannot verify against a primary source, no matter how widely it is repeated elsewhere.
  • Aggressive tax-avoidance schemes, including arrangements marketed as low-risk that depend on non-enforcement.
  • "Secret loophole" framing. If a provision is real, it has a citation and conditions; we explain both.

Corrections Policy

If you believe something on this site is wrong, report it through our contact page with the page URL. We aim to verify and correct confirmed errors within 5 business days. Material corrections — anything that changes the substance of what a page told readers — are noted on the corrected page rather than silently edited away.

How We Use AI

AI tools assist with drafting and summarizing, particularly for news items derived from official feeds. Humans set the scope of what gets covered, validate the citations, and own the result. No page is published on the strength of a model's output alone: the validation rules described above reject items that fail relevance or structure checks, and editorial review covers what the rules cannot. When AI-assisted drafting materially shaped a page, the page says so.