Editorial standards & corrections

What we publish

Digital Asset Tax Action publishes two kinds of content in this section of the website:

• Guides in Learn explain how federal tax law applies to digital assets as it stands today.
• News in News reports developments in legislation and IRS guidance, dated to the day they are published.

Everything here is educational. It is not tax or legal advice for your own situation.

Sources

We build from primary sources: the Internal Revenue Code, Treasury regulations, IRS forms, instructions, notices and letters, bill text and actions on Congress.gov and GovInfo, committee records, and public dockets on Regulations.gov. We link to those sources directly so you can check our reading against the original.

We use press coverage to find out that something happened, not as proof of what happened. If we cannot confirm a fact on a primary source, we do not publish it as fact.

Review

Every guide shows a date. Once our founder, a tax attorney and CPA, has reviewed a guide, it shows “Last reviewed” with the date of his most recent review and “Reviewed by Andrew Gordon, JD, CPA”. A guide awaiting his review shows “Last updated” with the date the page last changed, and names no reviewer. When the law or guidance behind a page changes, we update the page and the date it shows.

We track the bills we cover through Congress.gov and the committees that hear them. Every news post is reviewed by a person before it is published.

Neutrality

Digital Asset Tax Action is a 501(c)(3) public charity. We describe legislation; we do not take sides on it, and we never ask readers to contact lawmakers. We do not predict whether a bill will pass.

Our affiliate, Digital Asset Tax Advocacy, is a separate 501(c)(4) organization that does advocate on legislation. Its work lives in its own section of this website, clearly labeled, and every link from here to there says so before you leave.

Our governance documents, including our conflict-of-interest policy, are on the Transparency page.

Corrections

If you think we got something wrong, email info@digitalassettax.org. Tell us the page, what you think is wrong, and a source if you have one.

When we confirm an error:

• We fix the page.
• If the error changed the meaning of what we said, such as a wrong date, figure, deadline, or legal conclusion, we add a dated correction note to the page saying what changed.
• Small fixes that do not change the meaning, such as typos or broken links, are made without a note.
• We do not quietly delete a page to remove an error.

News posts are a record of what was true on the day they were published. When a story moves on, we add a dated update or publish a new post rather than rewriting the original.