Editorial policy · Sinstegi

The three rules

1. No figure is ever typed into prose

Every number, fee, threshold, rate, deadline and date on this site lives in exactly one place, with a source and a date we last checked it. Pages and calculators read from that one place. When the minimum wage changes, we edit one line and every page, table and calculator updates together.

This is enforced. If someone types a figure into a page that already exists in the dataset, the build fails with an error naming the data point they should have used instead. That is why you can open any number on this site and see where it came from.

2. Nothing unverified is published as fact

Every figure carries one of three confidence levels:

Official — traceable to a Greek or EU government source. 1 of our 172 figures.
Reported — consistently reported by several credible sources, but not confirmed against the primary source. 139 figures.
Needs verification — sources disagree, or the rule is in flux. 32 figures.

A page that depends on a figure in the third category is held back from publication. It is excluded from search engines and from the site's navigation, and it says so at the top. We never raise a confidence level to make a page publishable. If that means a calculator we have built and tested cannot ship because one contribution rate is disputed, the calculator waits.

3. We publish information, not advice

We are not a law firm, a tax practice, an immigration consultancy or a medical service. Every page carrying immigration, tax, legal or medical content renders a disclaimer automatically from its own metadata — not pasted in by hand, so it cannot be forgotten on the one page where it matters — and routes you to a qualified Greek professional.

The corollary is the useful part: because we are not selling any of these routes, we can tell you when one is a bad fit. Every route page carries a "who this is wrong for" block, and the build fails if one is missing.

How often we re-check

Every page has a review interval: 90 days for tax, fees and permits, 180 days for regions and culture. Every build produces a staleness report listing the pages closest to their interval, and that report is the editorial to-do list. A page more than three times its review interval past verification fails the build outright.

The "last verified" date near the top of every page is not decoration. Green means checked within 90 days, amber within 180, red beyond.

Which sources we use

We maintain a register of 12 primary authorities and every data page links to at least one. We summarise and link; we never republish substantial extracts from government pages, law firm articles or news sites. Official figures are facts and we reproduce them, but all the surrounding explanation is written here.

We deliberately store the authority's primary domain rather than a deep link, because deep links to Greek government pages change constantly and a dead link is worse than a domain you can search.

Corrections

If a figure here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it and date the correction on the page. Where an authority's own page and our reading disagree, the authority is right. Write to us through the contact page — corrections go to the top of the queue ahead of new writing.

What we will not do

Publish a figure we cannot source.
Round an uncertain number to make a page tidier.
Let payment change what we write, which routes we recommend, or the order anything appears in.
Omit a disqualifier because it makes a route look less attractive.
Present a planned rule as though it were in force.

Who writes this

The current dataset was imported from a single research pass and is marked as such: every figure records who verified it and when. Before launch, every figure in the "needs verification" category goes to a Greek lawyer and a Greek accountant. Read about this site and how we make money.