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Editorial PolicyEvery guide on this site is built from official government sources. This page explains the research methodology, sourcing standards, and corrections policy behind all six topic areas across eight jurisdictions.
Company registries, tax authorities, central banks, and immigration portals — never secondary sources
Written by people with business-law and formation expertise, not automated systems
Every guide is dated; regulations change and we re-verify on a rolling basis
Guides explain how formation works; for your specific situation consult a lawyer
Formation providers and affiliate partners never influence guide content
Corpy is a publication, not a law firm or accounting firm. The articles and country guides on this site explain how company registration generally works in a given jurisdiction, based on our research of publicly available official sources. They are not a substitute for advice from a lawyer or accountant licensed in that jurisdiction, and they are not tailored to your specific circumstances.
For decisions that materially affect your business — choosing a legal structure, understanding tax obligations, meeting local compliance requirements — consult a qualified professional who is licensed in the relevant jurisdiction. Corpy guides are a starting point for research, not a final answer.
Corpy is an independent publication covering international business formation across eight jurisdictions: UAE/Dubai, Turkey, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Singapore, Estonia, and Portugal. We publish expert-researched guides across six topic areas — company formation, corporate tax, business laws, free zones & incentives, banking & finance, and visas & residency. The standard across all of them is the same: primary government sources, human authors with domain expertise, and no compromises on accuracy for the sake of volume or speed.
Every editorial decision — which jurisdictions to cover, how to structure procedural requirements, when to update, and when to issue a correction — is made by the editorial team and no one else. No formation service provider, advertiser, or affiliate partner has ever influenced the content of our guides.
For editorial questions: editorial@corpy.xyz
Business formation requirements, tax rules, banking policies, and visa programs change frequently. Fees increase, document requirements shift, banking restrictions tighten or ease, and residency pathways get updated by government decree. Our research process is designed to produce guides that are accurate at publication across all six topic areas and maintainable over time.
Every country guide is built from primary sources: the official company-registry website, the relevant tax authority, the published commercial code or company act, the foreign-investment or trade-promotion agency, the central bank or financial regulator for banking guides, and the immigration authority or official visa program portal for residency guides. We cite these by name and link to them where publicly accessible.
Guides for major jurisdictions are reviewed by contributors with formation experience in that country — local practitioners, corporate lawyers who have completed formations there, or business-law academics. We attribute expert input where it shapes the content.
Every guide is published with a "last verified" date. When fees, timelines, or document requirements change, we update the guide and change the date. Guides over twelve months old without a re-verification note should be treated as indicative; confirm specific numbers with the official registry before acting.
Practitioners who have recently completed formations are some of our best fact-checkers. We actively invite corrections from readers with current, on-the-ground experience in specific jurisdictions.
Every guide on Corpy is written by a person with demonstrable expertise in the relevant subject area. Contributors include corporate lawyers, registered agents, international tax practitioners, immigration specialists, and business journalists with deep knowledge of the jurisdictions they cover.
The editorial team reviews every piece against primary sources before publication. Jurisdiction-specific contributors bring on-the-ground formation experience that cannot be replicated from a desk. That expertise shapes the content whether or not it is attributed by name.
Corpy content is written and edited by humans. We do not publish AI-generated guides as final content. Given the legal and regulatory nature of our subject matter, human judgment about what is accurate, current, and jurisdiction-specific is not substitutable.
We use software tools in the production process — translation tools for official-language registry pages, search, reference managers, and grammar checkers. These assist human writers; they do not replace the domain expertise and editorial accountability that come with human authorship of legally sensitive content.
Corpy may display third-party advertising and, in some articles, affiliate links to formation service providers, registered agent services, or legal platforms. Commercial relationships have no influence over which jurisdictions we cover, how we describe formation procedures, or what we recommend.
When an article contains affiliate links to a formation service or tool, this is disclosed clearly at the top of that article. Affiliate relationships do not affect our assessment of a service's quality or suitability for a given use case. We do not accept payment to include or exclude any provider from a comparison or guide.
Requirements change without notice across all six topic areas — fee increases, new document requirements, registry changes, banking policy shifts, and visa program updates. We take corrections seriously because outdated information in this domain has real-world consequences for people making business and relocation decisions.
Email editorial@corpy.xyz with the URL of the article and the specific issue. Include the current correct information and your source (official registry page, official document) if you have it. We respond to all correction requests and check each one against primary sources.
Material corrections — wrong fees, incorrect document names, outdated registry procedures, or factual errors — are noted at the bottom of the guide along with the correction date. The guide's "last verified" date is also updated. Minor corrections such as typos and formatting fixes are made without notation.
