Corrections Policy

FinCalcHub publishes financial calculators and guides used by people in the USA, UK, and South Africa to make real money decisions. When a number, formula, or explanation on this site is wrong, we want to know — and we want the fix to be visible, not quietly buried.

1. What we treat as a correction

• Factual errors — a tax rate, contribution limit, threshold, or rule stated incorrectly anywhere on the site.
• Broken calculations — a calculator that returns an output inconsistent with the published formula and methodology shown on the same page.
• Outdated figures — a tax band, contribution cap, interest rate, or statutory threshold that has changed since our last review.
• Source errors — a citation that no longer resolves, or that points to the wrong primary source (IRS, HMRC, SARS, a central bank, or similar).
• Misleading framing — wording that reads as individual financial advice rather than general education.

Typo fixes, broken internal links, and design tweaks are ordinary maintenance and do not appear in the public correction record.

2. How to report a correction

Email [email protected] with:

• The URL of the affected page.
• The specific sentence, figure, or calculator output that is wrong.
• What you believe the correct value or wording should be.
• A link to a primary source (IRS, HMRC, SARS, a central bank, statute, or peer-reviewed publication) where possible.

3. Response times

These are the same commitments set out in our editorial policy:

• Acknowledgement — every correction email gets a personal reply within 24 hours confirming receipt and whether we agree the page needs changing.
• Verification — factual points are checked against the primary source before anything changes. If your source disagrees with the regulator, we go with the regulator and explain why in the reply.
• Publication — factual corrections normally go live within 48 hours of confirmation. Substantive rewrites (where a worked example must be redone because an assumption changed) take longer, and you will be told that up front.

4. How corrections are recorded

1. Where the correction materially changes an answer a reader might have acted on, a visible note is added at the foot of the page — for example, “Correction: 18 May 2026 — previous version stated X; the correct figure is Y” — rather than the page being silently edited.
2. The affected page’s last-reviewed date is updated, which also bumps the dateModified field in that page’s JSON-LD schema so search engines see the page has changed.
3. We do not quietly rewrite history. If a calculator returned a wrong number for a class of inputs, the correction note says so plainly.

5. What we won’t change

• Reasoned differences over assumptions. Where a tool uses a default assumption (an expected investment return, a typical inflation rate), we document it. A reasonable disagreement about which assumption to use is an editorial choice, not a factual error.
• Output that differs from your adviser. These calculators are fast estimates for education, not a substitute for regulated advice. If a financial adviser, accountant, or tax practitioner gives you a different figure for your circumstances, theirs is the one to act on.
• Region-mismatch results. Running a UK tax scenario as a US user returns the right maths for the wrong jurisdiction. We keep improving region handling, but that is a usability matter, not a calculation error.

6. Editorial independence

FinCalcHub is funded by display advertising (Google AdSense). We take no affiliate fees from banks, lenders, brokers, or product issuers, and we run no sponsored content. See the advertising & affiliate disclosure for the full picture. No correction is ever delayed, blocked, or altered because of a commercial relationship.

7. Authorship and review

Content is written and reviewed by James Blanckenberg. The full standards every page is held to are set out in the editorial policy.

Corrections policy last reviewed: 9 June 2026.