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

About Corpy: formation, tax, laws, free zones, banking and residency, researched from the registry, the tax authority and the commercial code themselves. The guides founders use when the decision actually costs something.

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.

So every guide is built from the source that actually governs the thing: the official registry, the tax authority, the commercial code, the central bank, the immigration portal. Every fee, timeline and document requirement is verified against it.

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.

Every country guide, tax breakdown and comparison is free. No premium tier, no login wall, no email gate. Corpy is funded through advertising, so the research stays 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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