Company/Editorial standards

Editorial standards: how we research, write and correct

Our editorial standards start with the source: every guide is built from the registry, the tax authority or the statute itself. This page sets out the sourcing standard, who writes the work, and what happens when we get something wrong.

Primary
Government sources only
Human
Written and expert-reviewed
Dated
Verified before publication

Our core principles

Official sources
Company registries, tax authorities, central banks and immigration portals, never a secondary summary of them.
Human authorship
Written by people with business-law and formation expertise, not generated and lightly edited.
Dated guides
Every guide carries a verification date. Regulations change, and a guide without a recent date should be treated as indicative.
Not legal advice
Guides explain how formation works in general. For your situation, consult someone licensed where you are filing.
Independent editorial
Formation providers and affiliate partners never influence what a guide says, or whether it says anything at all.
Corpy is a publication, not a law firm or an accounting firm. Our guides explain how company registration generally works in a jurisdiction, based on publicly available official sources. They are not a substitute for advice from a professional licensed in that jurisdiction, and they are not tailored to your circumstances.

For decisions that materially affect your business, choosing a legal structure, understanding tax obligations, meeting local compliance requirements, consult a qualified professional licensed where you are filing. Our guides are a starting point for research, not a final answer.

About Corpy

Corpy is an independent publication covering international business formation across eight jurisdictions: the UAE and Dubai, Turkey, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Singapore, Estonia and Portugal. We publish researched guides across six topic areas: company formation, corporate tax, business laws, free zones and incentives, banking, and visas and residency, folded into the country guides.

Every editorial decision, which jurisdictions to cover, how to structure procedural requirements, when to update, 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 a guide.

8
Jurisdictions covered in full
UAE, Turkey, Germany, UK, US, Singapore, Estonia, Portugal
6
Topic areas per country
Formation, tax, business laws, free zones, visas, banking
3
Partly covered
Canada, Australia and France have a guide each, not a full set
0
Paid placements
No provider has ever bought a mention

How we research country guides

Formation requirements, tax rules and banking policies change frequently. Fees increase, document requirements shift, residency pathways get rewritten by decree. The process below is designed to produce guides that are accurate at publication and maintainable afterwards.

01
Official registry research
Every guide is built from primary sources: the company registry, the tax authority, the published commercial code or company act, the foreign-investment agency, the central bank or financial regulator, and the immigration authority for residency questions. We cite these by name and link to them where they are publicly accessible.
02
Expert review
Guides for major jurisdictions are reviewed by contributors with formation experience there: local practitioners, corporate lawyers who have actually completed filings, or business-law academics. We attribute expert input where it shapes the content.
03
Dating and version control
Every guide is published with a last-verified date. When fees, timelines or document requirements change, we update the guide and change the date. A guide more than twelve months old without a re-verification note should be treated as indicative: confirm the numbers with the registry before acting.
04
Reader correction loop
Practitioners who have recently completed a formation are among our best fact-checkers. We actively invite corrections from readers with current, on-the-ground experience, by email or publicly through CitePep.

Primary source categories we use

Official company registries
National tax authorities and revenue services
Commercial codes and company acts
Foreign investment and trade promotion agencies
Official government fee schedules
Central bank and financial regulator publications
Immigration authorities and visa programme portals
Free zone authority websites
OECD tax treaty databases and Pillar Two guidance

Who writes our content

Every guide is written by a person with demonstrable expertise in the subject. Contributors include corporate lawyers, registered agents, international tax practitioners, immigration specialists and business journalists with working knowledge of the jurisdictions they cover.

The editorial team checks every piece against primary sources before publication. Jurisdiction-specific contributors bring formation experience that cannot be replicated from a desk, and that expertise shapes the content whether or not it carries a byline.

Our policy on AI-assisted content

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 the subject, judgement about what is accurate, current and jurisdiction-specific is not substitutable.

We do use software in production: translation tools for official-language registry pages, search, reference managers and grammar checkers. These assist writers. They do not replace the domain expertise and editorial accountability that come with human authorship of legally sensitive material.

Advertising and affiliate disclosures

Corpy may display third-party advertising and, in some articles, affiliate links to formation services, registered agents or legal platforms. Commercial relationships have no influence over which jurisdictions we cover, how we describe procedures, or what we recommend.

Where an article contains affiliate links, this is disclosed at the top of that article. Affiliate relationships do not affect our assessment of a service's quality or suitability. We do not accept payment to include or exclude any provider from a comparison or guide.

Corrections policy

Requirements change without notice: fee increases, new document requirements, registry procedure changes, banking policy shifts. We take corrections seriously because outdated information in this domain has consequences for people making real decisions.

Material
Noted on the guide
Wrong fees, incorrect document names, outdated registry procedures and factual errors are corrected, noted at the bottom of the guide with the correction date, and the last-verified date is updated.
Minor
Fixed silently
Typos, broken links and formatting fixes are made without notation. We do not clutter a correction log with punctuation.

How to report an error

Email editorial@corpy.xyz with the URL and the specific issue. Include the correct information and your source, an official registry page or document, if you have it. We answer every correction request and check each one against primary sources.

Public corrections via CitePep

Anyone can correct us in public, and we cannot quietly decline.

Email reaches our inbox. CitePep does not, it is an independent verification platform where the correction, our response, and the eventual amendment are all recorded outside our control. Every Corpy article carries a CitePep record.

01
File it
Point at the claim, say what is wrong, and cite the registry or statute that shows it.
02
We answer in public
Our response is recorded on CitePep whether we accept the correction or contest it.
03
You are credited
Accepted corrections amend the guide and name you on it, with a permanent link to your contribution.

Editorial team

C
Corpy Editorial
Founder and editorial lead

Our contributors bring backgrounds in corporate law, international business registration and cross-border tax. Every guide is reviewed for accuracy against primary sources before publication.

editorial@corpy.xyz
This page was last reviewed in May 2026·Questions? editorial@corpy.xyz