Editorial team & standards
Our country guides for corporate gift cards are about money employers do or don't have to remit. Every number is checked against official primary sources before it goes live — and again at each annual review.
gift.cards Editorial is the in-house desk at gift.cards — the team that writes and maintains the tax, occasions and brand pages. We work from Amsterdam with rotating contributions from tax counsel and payroll specialists across our DACH, Benelux and France desks. We never attribute to an invented person.
Statutes and their consolidated versions, implementing decrees and official tariff publications (Belastingdienst, Bundesministerium der Finanzen, Agenzia delle Entrate, URSSAF, Revenue Commissioners, Skatteverket).
Policy rules, handbooks and manuals from the relevant national tax authority.
Publications of statutory bases (such as the French PMSS or the German Sachbezugsfreigrenze) at the moment they come into force.
An editor drafts the claim with the figure and pulls at least one primary source with a direct link.
A second editor checks the source, the year, the amount and the exact conditions (per employee, per event, per year, threshold vs. exemption).
Only after this double check does the number get published, with the source link at the bottom of the page and the verification date alongside it.
Full per-country review at least once a calendar year, plus an additional January sweep for new thresholds and a July check for mid-year changes.
When statutory parameters change in between (e.g. a new PMSS, Sachbezugsfreigrenze or trivial-benefits limit) we update within 10 working days of publication.
Unverified figures are either kept on noindex or marked "to verify" until the source is in hand.
Content on gift.cards is general orientation for procurement and HR. Every tax situation has its own facts. For binding advice always consult your own tax adviser or the relevant authority, and where in doubt check the original source links at the bottom of each country page.
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