Editorial policy
The rules every page is checked against before it publishes.
Every page on this site is generated against a written brief and then run through an automated gate before it can publish. A page that fails any of the following is rewritten rather than edited around.
No products, no rankings
No dealer, custodian, depository or IRA provider is named. Nothing is described as best, top or most trusted. Where a page covers an arrangement that people usually shop for, it explains what the arrangement is required to do rather than who to use.
Every rate carries its year
Any percentage that functions as a tax rate must state the year it applies to and must say that it is set by statute and can change. The same holds for thresholds, exclusions and reporting triggers. A bare figure is authoritative and wrong at the same time.
Rules, not advice
Pages state what the rule is. They do not tell a reader what they will owe, what they should claim or what they should elect, because the facts that decide those are not known here. Every page points to a CPA or an enrolled agent for the reader's own position.
Nothing about avoiding tax
Reporting thresholds are explained: what they are, what triggers them, and why arranging transactions to fall below one is itself an offence. Instructions for doing it are refused.
State rules are flagged as state rules
Sales tax on metal is set by each state and the exemptions change by legislative session. Any page that touches it says so explicitly and names what the reader has to check locally, rather than publishing a list that goes stale.
No advertising
The site carries no advertising and no affiliate links. There is nothing here that pays more if you reach one conclusion rather than another.