Editorial standards

Byrz writes about Australian tax law and proposed reform. Tax content is YMYL - "your money or your life" - and we treat it that way: legislation is the source of truth, every claim is dated, and revisions are versioned.

Sources we rely on, in priority order

1. Legislation - Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (ITAA 1997), ITAA 1936, Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 (SISA), and state revenue Acts. Section references accompany every substantive claim.
2. Australian Taxation Office (ATO) public rulings, determinations, and guidance - interpretation layer over the legislation. We cite the TR/PR/PCG/QC reference where used.
3. State revenue offices - Revenue NSW, SRO Victoria, QRO, RevenueSA, RevenueWA, ACT Revenue, State Revenue Office Tasmania for land tax and stamp duty schedules.
4. Federal Budget papers and Treasury announcements- for proposed reform. We label proposed measures as proposed and note enacting status next to the citation.

What we do not rely on

• Generative AI to write tax substance. AI writes structural markup and prose scaffolding; humans write the tax claims and cite each one to a statute or ATO source.
• Aggregator blogs, real-estate marketing content, or finance influencers as a source of legal interpretation.

Reviewer and editorial process

• Every substantive piece of tax content is drafted with legislation references inline, then reviewed against the cited section by a person with Australian tax-law training.
• The calculation engine's tax-law fidelity is independently audited round-by-round (we publish the round count in our changelog) and the test suite is run against every change.
• Claims about proposed reform are explicitly labelled "proposed" with the announcement date and current enactment status.

Dating, versioning, and correction

• Every blog post carries a publishedAt date and a updatedAt date. Both are surfaced in the byline and in the structured data (Article.datePublished and Article.dateModified).
• When a piece of legislation changes after publication, we add an editor's note at the top of the affected post and update the post body. The updatedAt date moves; the original is preserved in git history.
• Correction policy: a substantive correction (a claim was wrong, not a typo) gets an explicit "Correction" callout at the top of the affected post, naming the date of the change and the section that was wrong. Send corrections to hello@byrz.com.au.

Conflicts of interest and independence

Byrz does not accept paid placements in editorial content. We do not earn affiliate commissions on accountants, brokers, or real-estate platforms. Our revenue comes from selling reports to property investors directly; no advertiser relationships influence what we publish.

How to verify what we say

Every claim links to a primary source. The sources page aggregates every statute, ATO ruling, and state revenue schedule the engine and blog cite. Our methodology page walks through how the calculation engine implements each section of the law.

Questions or corrections? Email hello@byrz.com.au.