How we check every rule
Every rule in the Almanac comes from a law or a government page. Here is how it gets there, and how it stays right.
Laws first
We start from the law that sets the rule: the regulation, the statute, the tax code. Next comes the guidance the same government publishes about it. We do not take rules from blogs, forums or other apps.
When a law is written in Spanish or Italian, we quote it in its own words and put our English next to it.
The exact words, one tap away
Where a rule is explained, each fact carries a small number. It takes you to the source at the bottom: the article, the exact words we rely on, and a link to the page where they sit.
The site is built from a list of those sources. A fact with no source in that list cannot be published: the build stops.
Our count, labeled
Some laws set a test, not a number. Italy, for one, asks for most of the tax year. Where we turn a test into a day count, the page says How we count and shows the arithmetic, so you can check it.
Two dates on every rule
The day we last read each source, and the day the page last changed. We read sources again over time. When a source moves or its words change, the rule shows Being rechecked until we have read the new text.
What stays out
The Almanac states rules and how they count days. Questions that turn on your own facts, such as where your home is or where your family lives, stay out unless the law answers them alone. For those, the page names what the law looks at.
Nobody pays to appear in the Almanac, and there are no ads on it.
Corrections
Know a rule that changed, or a line we got wrong? Send us the source at hello@staytill.com. We fix the page and log the fix, with the date and what changed.