Editorial standards: how Lipi verifies its content

Money content is easy to get wrong and hard to spot when it is wrong. A tax rate from the wrong year still looks like a tax rate. Every guide and news piece on this site has to pass the same checks before it is published. This page sets out those checks, and the last section gives three recent examples of them doing their job.

Checked by someone who did not write it

Nothing here is published by the person or process that wrote it. A writer drafts a piece and lists every source used. A separate reviewer checks the draft against those sources, checks that it does not duplicate an existing page, and can send it back or block it. Only the reviewer can publish.

Figures come from primary sources

Figures that can change, such as tax slabs, duty rates, interest rates, fees and official prices, are taken from the body that sets them. That means a tax office, a central bank, a customs authority, an official gazette or a recognised federation, depending on the figure. A figure is never copied from another blog or news roundup. If we cannot confirm a current figure at the primary source, the piece does not run with a guessed number. It describes the mechanism, gives a range, or waits.

Dates and validity are printed on the page

Time-sensitive pages say which period their figures cover and when they were last checked. You will see a line like this near the data: Rates for fiscal year 2082/83. Last verified 26 October 2026. When the dated figure is the point of the piece, the year or fiscal year is in the title, so an old page labels itself as old.

We keep a register of pages with time-sensitive figures, along with the event that expires them, such as a new fiscal year, a budget speech or a rate change. When that event happens, the page is checked again and updated or clearly marked out of date.

Metal prices are never printed as a current fact. A guide can say what the estimated price was on a given date. For the live price, use the app.

Rules coverage states its jurisdiction

Tax and finance rules differ by country, and sometimes by state. Every piece about a rule states, at the top, the country it covers, the state where that matters, who the rule applies to, and the date it takes effect. A rule from one country is never written as if it applies everywhere.

Corrections are open

When we update a figure, the figure and the verified date change together, and the page notes what changed. We do not quietly move a date to make an old page look fresh. If a piece is wrong in a way that matters, the correction is made in the open and the earlier wording is not hidden. If you find a mistake, let us know and we will check it against the source.

This page is an example. It states our own policy and cites nobody, so it was published with an empty source list, and the publishing system flags that as an error (the flag is still there now, on the published piece, and anyone with system access can see it). We left the flag standing rather than attach a source the page does not use. The decision is recorded here instead of being tidied away.

Reported, never promoted

Our news coverage includes crypto scams, gambling scams, exchange collapses and enforcement actions. We report on these topics. We do not promote them. Pieces on them carry no affiliate links, no sign-up links and no lists of recommended platforms, and nothing in them is written to help anyone take part.

No personalised financial advice

Guides and news pieces explain how a rule, a product feature or an event works in general. They do not tell you what to do with your money, and they never include buy or sell calls. Where a decision depends on your circumstances, the piece gives you the facts the decision turns on and leaves the decision with you.

What this means for product guides

Guides about Lipi itself are checked against the live app before they are published. If a feature does not do what a draft says it does, the draft is fixed or dropped. Questions we cannot answer honestly, because the app does not solve them, are logged as product feedback instead of being written around.

Three checks from this week

On 26 October 2026, our gold guide passed its fact checks and was still sent back. The reviewer had opened the two sources behind the weight conversions and confirmed that 1 tola is 11.6638038 grams, and the sums were right. The problem was something the draft had left out: it never said that adding gold in Assets needs Premium, so a reader on the free plan would have reached a payment screen halfway through the steps. The sentence went in before the guide was published. A draft can be accurate and incomplete at the same time, and the second fault is the one readers meet first.

The same week, we checked Lipi's own metal feed while preparing that guide. On 26 October 2026 the feed showed an estimated gold price of Rs 280,454 per tola, dated 24 October 2026. The guide prints no current price. Where it uses that figure at all, it prints it as an estimate with its date, the way this paragraph does, and sends readers to the app for the live number.

Also that morning, both new pieces were published in our system while the public site was still serving an older build, so their web addresses returned a 404 page. A search submission was held until the addresses served the real pages, which they did later that morning. Published inside our system is not the same as readable by you, and only the second state counts.