How the Global Tax & Compliance Search works
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One box · ten lanes
Ask once.Search ten legal systems.
Tax and compliance law across 200+ jurisdictions. Ten are searched in full, statutes and rulings side by side, every result linked to where the law is published. For the rest, we name the official source.
gtc: one query, ten lanes in parallel
→ fans out to 10 official and open sources
- NLNetherlands statutes, tax articles, rulingswetten.overheid.nl
- EUEuropean Union binds every member stateEUR-Lex · EDPB
- USUnited States court opinionsCourtListener
- SRSuriname Dutch-derived civil lawwetten.sr
- NONorway EEA, outside the EUlovdata.no
- UKUnited Kingdom own statute book since Brexitlegislation.gov.uk
- ESSpain official state gazetteboe.es
- DEGermany federal codes, BGB to UStGgesetze-im-internet
- PLPoland statutes and codes, common-court rulingsSejm ELI · SAOS
- CACanada federal Acts and regulations, Supreme and Federal Court decisionsJustice Laws · Decisia
Why these ten: each has a source we can query live, so every result links to where the law is published and can be checked, not taken on trust.
No AI in the lookup* · deterministic
It looks the law up.And says when it can't.
No model writing the answer. Your query is read with fixed rules, sent to ten official and open sources at once, and every result is fetched and linked to where the law is published. When nothing comes back, it tells you why.
1 · Read
Your query, read by rules
- Country names in 14 languages
- Citations 2006/112/EC
- Abbreviations ATAD GDPR
- Statute titles Wet op de omzetbelasting
same query → same reading, every time
2 · Look up
The ten, searched in full
- NLwetten.overheid.nl*
- EUEUR-Lex · EDPB
- USCourtListener
- SRwetten.sr
- NOlovdata.no
- UKlegislation.gov.uk
- ESboe.es
- DEgesetze-im-internet
- PLSejm ELI · SAOS
- CAJustice Laws · Decisia
10 lanes in parallel · each asks its own source
3 · Answer or advise
- Found: statutes and rulings, each linked to the source
- Searched, nothing on point: says so for that country
- Source didn’t answer: says the failure is ours, never “no law”
The other 200+
in the directory, not searched
Not searched here. A query naming Japan, or a title like Codice civile, gets a plain sign on top, so other countries’ results are never passed off as the answer.
Advises: names the country, opens its official sources, and its own search portal where we have one
* The Dutch lane also asks a model which articles a concept points to. Every article shown is still fetched from wetten.overheid.nl.
What you can type
Type it the way lawyers write it.A word, a citation, a concept.
No need to know which site holds the law. The query is read by fixed rules, sent to the right source, and every result links to the official text.
Single words
names · abbreviations- btwNL
→ Wet op de omzetbelasting 1968, the Dutch VAT act
- GDPREU
→ Regulation (EU) 2016/679, straight from EUR-Lex
- UmsatzsteuergesetzDE
→ UStG, the German VAT act
Words and numbers
articles · citations- art. 6:162 BWNL
→ The article itself, from Book 6 of the Dutch Civil Code
- Corporation Tax Act 2010UK
→ The Act, on legislation.gov.uk
- 410 U.S. 113US
→ Roe v. Wade, found by its citation, not by keywords
Legal concepts
doctrine · regimes- Pillar TwoEU
→ Directive (EU) 2022/2523, the global minimum tax
- wanprestatieNL
→ art. 6:74 BW, via the rulings that cite it*
- VATNL · UK · DE · ES · EU
→ Verified VAT rates, each read from the statute
Works best with a law’s name, an abbreviation or a citation; full plain-English questions are next.
* For Dutch concepts a model also suggests articles. Every article shown is fetched from wetten.overheid.nl.