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Precept

Curaçao law in one place, from the official texts, with answers that cite the article they rest on.

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01One entry per law, with its newest official text
02Every amendment listed and linked
03Ask in Papiamentu, Dutch or English
04Every answer cites its article

A lawyer in a Punda office working in Precept on his laptop, law volumes beside him.

The law as it was published, in one place.

Precept is a research portal for Curaçao law, built by Galvan Intelligence. It works from official texts only.

A Curaçao law is rarely one document. There is the original publication in the gazette, and every amendment that followed it.

Precept gives each law one entry, with its newest official text and its amendments listed underneath. Open any amendment to see which laws it touches and how the law changed over time.

When you need an answer rather than a text, you ask. Precept looks the law up itself, reads the articles that matter and answers with the article each statement rests on. It can draw the structure it is describing, from a company up to its ultimate owner, with the sources beside it.

Precept's Atlas: a network of Curaçao laws such as profit tax, income tax, transfer tax and the Criminal Code, linked by their amendments, with filters for subject, gazette and years.

Atlas: how Curaçao laws connect, from the government's own gazette index. The sidebar holds Ask, the Library and Legal history.

LibraryOne entry per law
The newest official text of each law, with its amendments listed. Amendments are listed under it, never merged into it.
AtlasAmendment map
Which publications amend which, read from the Klapper, the government's own index of the gazette. Nothing here is generated.
Legal historyTimeline
The life of a law in order, from its publication through each change after it.
AskCited answers
Questions typed or spoken. Answers cite the article, and can come with a structure diagram, a chart or the steps of a calculation.

From a question to a cited answer, in five steps.

Ask is an agent: the model decides what to look up, and Precept does the looking. These are the steps it takes on a question.

Step 01 of 05

You ask

Typed or spoken, in Papiamentu, Dutch or English.

Type the question, or speak it: voice goes through Orea, our Papiamentu speech model. A question in Papiamentu is answered in English for now.

So You ask the way you would ask a colleague, in the language you think in.

Step 02 of 05

It searches the official texts

Five official Curaçao sources. Firm compilations are never used.

So Whatever it tells you can be traced to a text the government published.

Step 03 of 05

It reads the articles

It opens the article itself and checks the law's status and history.

So An answer about a law that was amended knows that it was amended.

Step 04 of 05

It computes in code

Rates and tax through a structure come from code, never the model.

So The model writes the sentences. It never does the arithmetic.

Step 05 of 05

It answers, with its sources

Each statement carries its article, with the structure drawn beside it.

So You can check each line before you put it in front of anyone else.

The rule it works by

Official texts only. And the model never computes.

Law statements come from texts the government published. Numbers come from code. The model's job is to find, read and explain, and every answer shows you what it used.

For people who answer questions about Curaçao law.

These are the uses Precept is built around.

Tax and corporate advice

Check the current text first

See what an ordinance says today and which amendments changed it, before you write the memo.

Structuring

See a structure drawn and taxed

Ask how a structure is taxed and see it drawn from the company up to its ultimate owner, with every rate cited.

Legal and compliance

Follow a law through time

Trace a law through the gazette, and see on the map which later publications touch it.

Papiamentu speakers

Ask in your own language

Ask by voice in Papiamentu and get a cited answer back, without translating the question first.

Where we draw the line.

Six lines Precept keeps, on purpose.

It does not give legal or tax advice.
Precept explains what the law says and shows where it says it. A decision about your situation belongs with an adviser who answers for it.
It does not use unofficial texts.
Firm compilations and commentary stay out, even when they would be more convenient. Where no official consolidated text is online, as with the current profit tax and income tax ordinances, Precept works from the official texts it has and says what is missing.
It does not rewrite the law.
Amendments are listed and linked. Precept never merges them into a text, so the text you read is the text that was published.
It covers Curaçao only.
Aruba, Sint Maarten and the BES islands are not included.
Papiamentu questions get English answers, for now.
You can ask in Papiamentu, by voice or typed. The answer comes back in English at this stage.
History is only as complete as its sources.
The timeline and the map are built from the gazette index. A change that is missing there is missing here too.

In beta. Here is what runs today.

Precept runs and is used by our own team. Each part below carries its real status.

LibraryOne entry per law, newest official text, amendments listedIn use internally
AtlasThe amendment map from the gazette indexIn use internally
Legal historyEach law's timelineIn use internally
AskCited answers, typed or by voice, with diagrams and chartsIn use internally
Client accessAccounts for clients outside GalvanLater
Other islandsAruba, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, SabaNot covered