Step 1
We draft it with AI
The draft is built from the authority pages themselves, never from another site's summary.
You leave with a page with no second-hand mistake carried into it.
Editorial guidelines
Our editorial guidelines cover how we source, write, check and correct what you read here. TaxSavers advises internationals in the Netherlands on tax. A&H Finance, our associated company, advises on mortgage, insurance and pension.
Sourced and datedwe link a figure to the page it came from and say when we read it
One source, both languagesthe English and the Dutch page point at the same document
One standardthe same rules cover everything we publish, whatever the subject
Our sources
Which sources do we use?
We take a figure from the authority that issues the rule. Almost everything we quote comes from belastingdienst.nl or rijksoverheid.nl. Where a rule is laid down in law, we go to wetten.overheid.nl. Business questions go to business.gov.nl and ondernemersplein.nl. Pension and benefit questions go to svb.nl. For other subjects we use the authority that covers that subject.
Rijksoverheid is the central government site and wetten.overheid.nl carries Dutch law itself. SVB is the Dutch social insurance bank and ondernemersplein.nl serves people in business. For a cross border question we cite the treaty text or the responsible Dutch authority.
A citation names the page, links to it and gives the date we read it. We call that the read date. Dutch tax figures change from year to year. Without a date, a source cannot tell you whether it still holds.
When an authority does not publish a figure at all, we say so. We would rather leave a gap you can see than fill it from somewhere we cannot stand behind.
English pages
Why do our English pages link to a Dutch source?
The Belastingdienst, the Dutch tax administration, maintains its Dutch page first. So on our English pages we link you to that page, not to its English version.
A summary you can read but cannot verify is not a source. A paraphrase can quietly change what the rule says. Your browser can translate the Dutch page for you. Then you are reading what the Belastingdienst wrote.
So the link points at the document, not at a description of it. That is the whole point of a citation. If one language version explains something extra, that part gets its own source.
Before publication
Who writes a page here, and who checks it?
Our editorial team has AI draft the page, and a second reader checks it. Two more steps follow before it reaches you.
Step 2
A person reads it
A second reader who wrote none of it reads the finished page against our own standard.
You leave with a read by someone with nothing invested in the wording.
Step 3
Automatic checks run
Automatic checks read every page for wording, sources and structure. AI runs these checks in both languages. They start only after we finish the draft.
You leave with a check that runs even when nobody thinks to ask.
Step 4
A person signs it off
Nothing reaches the live site until a person has read the page and approved it.
You leave with a human decision behind every page you read.
Writing with AI
Do we use AI to write these pages?
Yes. We draft our pages with AI. A person is accountable for every one of them.
People wrote the standard it works to. People choose the sources. People decide what a page may claim and what it may not.
We say this here rather than let you work it out. If we ever use AI in a way this paragraph does not describe, we will change this paragraph.
Hard rules
What do we never do when we make a page?
We never cite ourselves, never hide a source and never mark our own work. A rule is easier to check when it says what we will not do. Money is a separate question, answered on How we make money.
SOURCES
We never cite ourselves
A citation points at whoever published the rule. Never at another page on this site.
Learn moreATTRIBUTION
We never bury the source in a sentence
The source of a figure belongs where you can scan it in one go.
Learn moreREVIEW
We never let the writer check their own page
The reader who checks a page wrote no part of it. Automatic checks are another step, and a person signs off.
Learn moreYou can read about our team and our office on About TaxSavers.
Frequently asked
Questions about how we work.
What people ask us about sources, checks and corrections. Report a correction
How do I know a page is up to date?
A page's date tells you when its wording last changed. It is a last-edited date, not a last-reviewed one. We would rather draw that line ourselves than let you assume the stronger version. If you want to know how current a figure is, look at the read date beside the source on the page.
Your disclaimer says you give no warranty on accuracy. How does that fit with this page?
This page and the disclaimer answer two different questions. This page describes how we work on the content. The disclaimer sets the legal limits of what you can hold us to. Neither one cancels the other, and you are better off seeing both than seeing neither.
What counts as a factual error?
A factual error is a figure, a date, a rule or a link that is wrong. A link that no longer works counts too. A difference of view about what you should do is not an error, and that one belongs in a conversation. For anything that is not about the content, our contact page is the place to start.
Does this apply to the Dutch pages as well as the English ones?
Yes, one standard covers both. We write the Dutch page and the English page separately, each for its own reader. Neither is a translation of the other. They can differ in what they explain. They may not differ in what they claim.
What does this page not cover?
This page leaves out three things: what we charge, who we are and what clients say. How we earn our money has its own page. So do the team and the office. What clients say about working with us is on our reviews.
Corrections
Found something wrong on one of our pages?
Mail redactie@taxsavers.nl and tell us which page it is. It reaches the people who write and check these pages. When we correct a factual error, we say on the page what changed.
What's included
You send it
The page you were on and what looks wrong on it.
We check it
Against the source itself, never against our own page.
You see it too
The note appears on the page, not only in your inbox.