Tax-Services.ca is written, checked and kept up to date by an editorial team. Articles carry no personal names, because every page goes through the same steps, whoever touched it. Here’s what we are, what we aren’t, and how a page gets from an idea to your screen.
What are we, and what aren’t we?
We’re an independent publisher of calculators and plain-language guides on Canadian taxes, pay, property and savings. We are not the Canada Revenue Agency, Revenu Québec or any provincial ministry, and we’re not a tax firm. We don’t prepare returns, and we can’t give advice about your own file.
The calculators give estimates from public rules, and the guides explain those rules in words. Plan with them, compare options, and walk into a talk with your accountant, lender or employer with better questions.
How does a page get made?
It starts with the official rule. Rates, thresholds and limits are collected from government pages, with the source link recorded next to each figure. That’s the boring part, and the part everything else rests on. The maths then gets written as code, and automated tests compare the results with worked examples from the official sources.
The text comes last. We draft it in plain language: the answer first, then the steps, then the limits of the estimate. After that we check the text against the calculator, so a number in the words matches the number on the screen. The data side is covered in how we check rates.
How do updates and corrections work?
Rates change in January and often again in July, so we go over every calculator on that schedule and show an “Updated” date on every page: the day we last changed the text or checked the figures against the official source. If a government announces a change mid-year, we update the tools it affects and note the change on the page.
Mistakes happen. If you spot one, tell us through the contact page and name the page and the figure. Your claim gets checked against the official source. If you’re right, the page is fixed and the “Updated” date moves. A correction never gets quietly erased from history.
Does advertising change what we write?
The site earns money from advertising, but ads don’t change the result of a calculator or the wording of a guide. We don’t take payment to favour a product or a company inside our tools, and ads stay apart from the content.
When our text links to another site, it points to an official source or to something that helps you check a figure.
Who should you ask?
If a result puzzles you, start with the page itself: each calculator lists the rule it uses and the situations it leaves out. For a question about your own return, ask the CRA, Revenu Québec or a qualified professional. For anything about the site, use the contact page.