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About Corpy: eleven countries, eight of them down to the last filing fee.

Corpy research covers formation, taxation, laws, free zones, banking and residency across the registry, tax authority and commercial code sources. These guides reflect what the founders consult when decisions carry actual cost.

See what we coverHow we verify it
The sources we read
Official company registriesPrimary
National tax authoritiesPrimary
Commercial codes & legislationPrimary
Central banksPrimary
Immigration portalsPrimary
Never another publisher's summary. If a number cannot be traced to one of these, it does not get published.
Coverage
8countries
Covered in depth
All six topics published and dated.
Pipeline
3more
In build for 2026
Canada, Australia and France.
Per country
6topics
Formation to residency
The full decision, not just setup.
Published
200+ guides
Researched and dated
Every figure traced to its official source.
Our position

Primary sources. No filler. No sales pitch.

Formation decisions carry real legal and financial weight. The wrong structure, the wrong jurisdiction, a misread tax treaty, none of these are cheap mistakes.

Each guide draws from the source that actually governs its topic: the official registry, tax authority, commercial code, central bank or immigration portal. Every fee, timeline and document requirement in the guide is verified against this source.

Eight jurisdictions are covered across all six topics; Canada, Australia and France are in build, with formation and tax published first. We would rather ship a country slowly than post an unverified page. Depth earns trust; breadth without verification earns traffic and then destroys it.

Numbers that cannot be verified are not published. There is no third option.

Exactly what is published, and what is not

●52 published○14 in research
Jurisdiction
Formation
Tax
Laws
Free zones
Banking
Residency
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Company formationStep-by-step registration: costs, timelines, documents and legal structures.Corporate taxRates, VAT, income tax, double-taxation treaties and optimisation.Business lawsCompliance, annual filings, labour law and regulatory frameworks.Free zones & incentivesTax-free zones, grants, incentives and special economic areas.Banking & financeBusiness accounts, payment processing and services open to foreign owners.Visas & residencyBusiness visas, golden visas, permits and e-residency pathways.

Same standard, every jurisdiction

Our process
01
Research
Government registration portals, tax authority databases, central banks and immigration portals. Never secondary sources or other publishers.
02
Write
Contributors with direct formation experience, corporate lawyers, registered agents and international practitioners, write and review every guide.
03
Verify
Every rate, cost and legal requirement is cross-checked against the authoritative source. What cannot be verified is not published.
04
Update
New fees, revised documents, amended visa programmes, the affected guides are revised and re-dated. Outdated information comes off the site.

No paywall. No account. No conditions.

All country guides, tax breakdowns and comparisons are free to access. There is no premium tier, no login requirement and no email barrier. Corpy funds itself through advertising, which allows the research to remain available to anyone who needs it.

Every country guide and tax breakdown
All comparison tools and calculators
No account, no email gate, no trial
Sources cited and dated on every figure
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Common questions
  • A decision platform for starting and operating a business internationally. We publish researched guides across six topics: formation, corporate tax, business laws, free zones, banking and residency, for eight jurisdictions, with every figure traced to an official registry, tax authority or piece of legislation, and dated so you can check it yourself.

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