What's new on incFACTS

The automatic term-linker treated a glossary page's own term like any other mention, producing a self-link with a hover tooltip in the breadcrumb. A term page no longer links to itself.

The note under each definition now reads: dot-underlined mentions of this term across the site lead back to this page.

Citations were shortened at the first semicolon even when it sat inside a parenthetical, leaving an unclosed paren (seen on the Puerto Rico entry). Trimming now respects parentheses.

Mississippi restricts bank, banker, bankers, banking, and trust company (an eligibility rule - the entity must be chartered as a bank); Tennessee restricts bank, banks, banking, and the bare word trust, each with a commissioner-consent path. Both sourced from the state's official code publisher and quoted verbatim.

Every release is documented here with its user-visible changes. The header pill links to this page and shows a dot until you've seen the current release. Versioning follows 0.minor.patch while in beta; 1.0.00 lands when the feature surface stabilizes.

The change log (data corrections) and this page (site releases) now reference each other so it's clear which question each answers.

Structured records for all 54 jurisdictions: 29 states levy a franchise or equivalent privilege tax, 25 demonstrably do not. Each taxing state carries basis, rates, minimum/maximum, due date, and citation; each no-tax state carries the affirmative finding.

Ranks the recurring annual cost of corporate existence - report fees plus franchise minimums - across every jurisdiction, with the franchise-equals-annual-report states counted once, not twice.

Verified phone, mail, and portal contact points for each filing office, with the best-for-filings point called out. Source-linked where the office publishes the point we verified.

Which submission channels each state actually accepts, per filing type - including where online filing is mandatory and where fax is officially dead.

PR and USVI now have full jurisdiction pages; canonical fee coverage reaches all 54 U.S. jurisdictions.

A stale loader kept channel tables off every hub except Florida even though the data existed for all 54. All hubs now render them.

The county-DBA chart's California parser predated the current dataset shape and could take down the whole page build. Rewritten against the current shape.

An enacted change used to be written as 'upcoming' and could read that way after its effective date passed. Every rebuilt page now renders matured changes as 'now in effect' with the date they landed.

Type-ahead filtering over every term, alias, and definition. The count updates live; clearing the box restores the full list.

Read the glossary as full definition cards or scan it as a compact table. The choice is remembered between visits.

FQ, AL, COGS, and SOP - each defined in plain English with the practice context the abbreviation carries.

Formation, annual-report, and certificate fees with the statutory citation, the official source, the retrieval date, and the review status of every value.

The entity statutes behind the numbers, quoted verbatim from official publishers, with elisions marked.

Which words a state restricts or prohibits in an entity name, the statute that says so, and what consent unlocks them - expanded from Nevada-only to national coverage.

Read-only programmatic access carrying the same citations and review-status gates as the site. Certificate-fee comparison and discrepancy reporting included.

Cross-state analyses: certificate-of-good-standing pricing, DBA regimes, publication requirementsPublication requirementA few states require newly formed or registered entities to publish a notice in designated newspapers (New York's LLC publication is the expensive example) - a real cost of formation that fee tables usually omit.Read the full entry →, entity-type splits, and closure costs.