Editorial policy

This page describes what we actually do, not what we aspire to. If the process changes, this page changes with it.

Sourcing

Figures come from primary documents wherever a primary document exists. The Gaceta Oficial for decrees, the Registro Público for title, the Dirección General de Ingresos and the Tribunal Administrativo Tributario for tax.

Every source is named at the foot of the article with the date we retrieved it. A figure with no source does not go in.

We also read the forums where buyers compare notes. Those are useful for finding out which questions people actually have, and they are quoted as opinion and attributed, never presented as fact.

Specialist review

Anything touching law, tax, investment or immigration is read by a named specialist before it publishes. The reviewer is named on the article along with the date they signed off.

An article that names a reviewer but shows no review date has not been reviewed yet. We would rather show you that gap than hide it.

What we will not do

• Sell editorial coverage. No developer, agency or lawyer can buy an article, a mention or a favourable description.
• Publish a price we cannot show the working for. Panama has no public transaction record, so our figures are asking prices and we say so every time.
• Give personal legal, tax or investment advice. We explain how things work; what you should do is a conversation with your own lawyer or accountant.
• Quietly change a published figure. A correction is dated and described.

Both languages

Every article exists in English and Spanish, written rather than machine translated, and the two versions carry the same structure and the same figures. Where a Spanish legal term has no clean English equivalent we keep the Spanish and define it.