Ignito.Monitor

Corporate tax rate

Use it to build a shortlist, never to pick a winner. Two jurisdictions with the same headline rate can differ twofold in what you actually pay.

FATF status / grey list

If a jurisdiction is grey-listed, budget weeks rather than days for banking, and expect to explain your business in writing more than once.

Sanctions exposure

A flag here means your problem will be getting paid, not legality — and that problem lands on you regardless of whether you personally did anything wrong.

Data-protection law

If your users are European, the transfer question decides your architecture — where the database physically sits — not just your privacy policy.

New York Convention (1958)

Check this before you sign an arbitration clause with a counterparty from that country, not after the dispute starts.

Apostille Convention (1961)

Apostille is days and one fee. Consular legalisation is weeks, several fees, and a courier. If your deal has a deadline, this row is a schedule risk.

Foreign ownership

If this says no, you are not just filing different paperwork — you are giving someone a seat at the table. Price that before you choose the country.

Local director requirement

Treat it as a fixed annual cost plus a single point of failure, not as a formality.

Where does the data come from?

From a curated database maintained as part of the Ignito legal practice, cross-checked by hand against primary sources: statutes, regulator publications, the FATF plenary statements and the HCCH status tables. Every review pass is published on the changes page.

How often is it updated?

Two different things, and it is worth separating them. Monitoring is continuous and event-driven: FATF plenary outcomes, sanctions listings, apostille and New York Convention accessions and announced tax changes are tracked as they happen, and the affected entries are corrected then. Review is the deliberate re-verification of entries against primary sources; it runs in batches rather than sweeping all ninety jurisdictions on a fixed fortnightly cycle. The date at the top is the last completed review pass, and every pass is written up entry by entry on the changes page.

Can I rely on it for a deal?

Use it to shortlist and to ask the right questions — not as a substitute for advice on a live transaction. Rules change, and headline figures hide reliefs and exemptions. Verify against the primary source before you sign.

A rate looks outdated. What do I do?

Email customer@ignito.info. Monitoring is continuous, so a reported error is usually corrected well before the next scheduled review pass, and we credit useful corrections in the public changelog.

Can I reuse the data?

Yes. The dataset is available at /api/data.json under CC BY 4.0 — use it, publish it, build on it, with attribution and a link back to ignito.tech.

Why is it free?

Because the people who need it are the people we want to meet. The monitor is maintained by a working cross-border practice; if the shortlist turns into a structure, you know where to find us. Nothing is gated and there is no account to create.

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