Taylor series of a function $f(x,y)$ about point $(a,b)$

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The general expression for Taylor series is given here.

My book says we can write the Taylor series about origin $(0,0)$ as:

$f(x,y)=\dfrac{1}{2} [f_{xx}\ x^2 + 2f_{xy}\ xy + f_{yy}\ y^2]$

because the linear terms vanish because of the position of the axes.

Is this perfectly correct about $(0,0)$ or is it an approximation?