How we research and verify tax figures

Statutes and their consolidated versions, implementing decrees and official tariff publications (e.g. 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, a new Sachbezugsfreigrenze, a new 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.

Unless a page names a specific author, the byline is "gift.cards Editorial" — our in-house desk. We do not attribute to a fictional person.

External legal review is marked "review pending" while it is still outstanding.

Any change to a published figure carries a new verification date.