This disclaimer is the most important page on the website. It is also the most often skipped. The press has chosen to publish it in editorial form — readable, plainly written, structured for actual reading rather than legal-defense scanning — because we want every reader to understand it. The disclaimer's enforceability does not depend on length or formality; it depends on it being clearly communicated. So we have communicated it.
What the publications are.
Industry Ledger Press publishes industry-specific tax and bookkeeping reference books. Each volume is written by an editor with industry experience and reviewed by a credentialed CPA. The volumes describe how the tax code, IRS practice, and bookkeeping standards apply to the operators of small and mid-sized businesses in the named industry, with worked examples, IRC citations, and specific dollar figures current as of each volume's edition.
The volumes are dense. They are accurate. They are designed to give an operator enough understanding of their own situation to manage the relationship with their own tax professional effectively, to ask the right questions, to recognize the strategies that may apply, and to spot the issues that may need a specialist's attention.
What the publications are not.
The volumes are not tax advice. They are not legal advice. They are not accounting advice. They are not financial planning. They are not a substitute for a credentialed tax professional reviewing your specific facts and circumstances and applying their judgment to your situation.
The press is not your CPA. Reading a volume does not create any professional relationship between you and the press, the editors, the authors, or the credentialed reviewers. There is no fiduciary duty owed to you by virtue of having purchased a volume. The relationship is the same as that between a reader and any other published reference work — instructive, but not advisory.
Why this matters practically.
Tax law is fact-specific. The same situation, with two different sets of facts, can produce two completely different tax outcomes. A volume describes the typical case, the rules, the common patterns, and the worked examples that illustrate them. A volume cannot know your facts. The §179 election, the QBI deduction, the FICA tip credit, the §25C residential energy credit, the worker-classification analysis — every one of these turns on facts the volume cannot know about your specific business and its specific year.
Practically, this means: if a volume describes a strategy that sounds applicable to your situation, the next step is to verify that it applies to your specific facts with a credentialed professional. Not the step after that. The step after the next. The volume gets you to the conversation; the conversation gets you to the answer.
The currency question.
Each volume is published with an Edition date — typically the calendar year of publication, e.g., "Annual Edition · 2026." The figures, thresholds, IRC sections, and IRS forms in that edition are current as of January of that year, to the best of the press's research and review process.
Tax law changes. Congress amends the code. The IRS issues new revenue rulings, regulations, and notices. State and local jurisdictions update their own rules continuously. A figure that is correct in January 2026 may be superseded by March, by June, by the time you actually file in April of the following year.
The press issues updated editions each January, free to any reader within twelve (12) months of their original purchase. Beyond that twelve-month window, readers should treat older editions as historical reference and verify any specific figure or rule against current authority before relying on it.
Reasonable reliance and specific advice.
If a volume describes a tax strategy and you implement that strategy, the responsibility for the outcome rests with you and any tax professional you engaged. Reading the volume does not transfer that responsibility to the press, to the editors, to the authors, or to the credentialed reviewers.
The press recommends, in every volume and on this page, that any reader contemplating a tax strategy described in the volumes engage a credentialed tax professional to review the strategy against the reader's specific facts before acting on it. The press maintains a referral list of specialist CPAs in many metro areas; we are happy to provide a recommendation, and that conversation is free, with no commission flowing to the press.
Worked examples and illustrative figures.
The volumes contain worked examples — calculations showing how a specific strategy applies to a typical operator. These examples are illustrative. The dollar figures are realistic but not your figures. The fact patterns are typical but not your facts. Do not treat a worked example as a calculation specific to your situation; treat it as a model for how the math works.
IRS guidance and third-party sources.
The volumes cite IRC sections, IRS forms, IRS publications, Treasury Regulations, and Tax Court decisions. The press makes reasonable effort to cite accurately and to verify each citation against the source. We do not warrant that every citation is current at the time you read it; the IRS occasionally renumbers forms, withdraws guidance, or supersedes prior interpretations, and Tax Court rulings are appealed and reversed. For any decision turning on a specific citation, verify the citation against the source as of your decision date.
Worker classification, S-corp compensation, and other high-stakes topics.
Several topics covered by the volumes — worker classification under the IRS common-law test, reasonable compensation for S-corporation owners, hobby loss under §183, multi-state sales tax compliance, and others — are areas where the difference between defensible and indefensible positions is large, fact-specific, and consequential. The volumes describe the framework for analysis. They do not produce the analysis for your specific situation. For any high-stakes classification or compensation question, engage a credentialed professional. The press's referral list is available on request; the conversation is free.
The reviewers.
Each volume is reviewed by a credentialed CPA before publication. The reviewer holds an active license, an active PTIN, and active malpractice insurance. The reviewer applies their professional judgment to the manuscript and signs off on its substantive accuracy as of the publication date.
The reviewer's role is to ensure the volume is substantively correct. The reviewer is not your CPA. The reviewer does not know you, has not reviewed your books, and has no professional relationship with you. The reviewer's sign-off speaks to the volume's general accuracy, not to its applicability to any individual reader's situation.
Scope of industries.
Each volume is written for the operator of a specific industry — restaurants, HVAC contractors, auto repair shops, and so on. The volume describes that industry. It does not describe adjacent industries, even when the strategies appear similar. A restaurant operator should rely on the Restaurants volume, not on the HVAC Contractors volume, even when the two volumes describe similar concepts; the industry-specific facts that drive the analysis differ in ways that matter.
Acknowledgment.
By purchasing or accessing any publication from Industry Ledger Press, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this disclaimer, that you understand the publications are educational only and not advice, and that you accept the responsibility to engage a credentialed professional for any decision turning on your specific facts.
This disclaimer is part of, and supplements, the press's Terms of Service and Refund Policy. In any conflict between this disclaimer and the Terms of Service, the more protective provision (whichever requires the press to do more or limits the press's liability less) governs.
Questions.
Questions about this disclaimer or about how to use the publications appropriately may be directed to press@industryledgerpress.com. The press is happy to discuss the appropriate use of any volume; we are not able to provide tax advice in response to such questions, but we can clarify how the volume's content relates to a question you may have.