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.
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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.
Our sources
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 sits 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
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.
Writing with AI
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.
Our editorial team drafts the page and a second reader checks it. Two more steps follow before it reaches you.
The draft is built from the authority pages themselves, never from another site's summary.
A second reader who wrote none of it reads the finished page against our own standard.
Automatic checks read every page for wording, sources and structure. AI runs these checks in both languages.
Hard rules
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.
A citation points at whoever published the rule. Never at another page on this site.
Learn moreThe source of a figure belongs where you can scan it in one go.
Frequently asked
What people ask us about sources, checks and corrections. Report a correction
Corrections
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. We mean a wrong figure, a wrong date, a wrong rule or a dead link.
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.
Nothing reaches the live site until a person has read the page and approved it.
The reader who checks a page wrote no part of it. Our automatic checks are a separate step from the drafting.
Learn moreYou can read about our team and our office on About TaxSavers.
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