Why one language

Tax wording carries legal weight. A translated threshold or a re-phrased exception can change what a reader believes the law says, and we are not able to review translations to the same standard as the English original. Until we can, one edition is the honest answer.

Reading us in another language

  1. EnglishThe edition we publish. Every story, table and report is written and checked in English.
  2. Machine translationChrome, Safari and Edge translate our pages on the fly: our markup is plain text and tables, so translation keeps the numbers intact.
  3. On requestNewsrooms and advisors who need a story or a data table in another language can write to the desk and we will send the source text and figures.

Figures travel without translation

The tables behind our stories — limits and brackets, the state map, the law tracker and the calendar — are numbers and dates. They read the same in any language, and each one names its source.

Contact the desk with the story link and the language you need.