About Heed

    Replace reaction with readiness.

    Heed means to pay careful attention. Our canary is the one from the coal mine, the original early warning: we catch tax changes early, so people living across borders can respond, not react.

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    Manifesto

    The rules are public. The warning is not.

    You built a life across borders. A home in one country, a company in another, family and history in a third. It took years.

    The rules under that life move every year. A budget, a bill, one line in a gazette, published in a language you may not read, on a portal nobody outside that country opens.

    Nobody tells you in time. Large firms pay people to read those pages. Everyone else hears late and second hand, when the deadline has passed and the cost is already theirs.

    We think that is wrong. A rule you were never told about should not cost you what took years to build.

    So we built the watcher. Heed reads the official sources, matches every change to your life and tells you soon after it is published. We are not your adviser. We are the one who tells you first, while the decision is still yours to make.

    It started with one founder who lived exactly this. The founder is still its first user.

    Know where you stand, before the world moves.

    How the news arrivesA rule changes, then a year

    Before

    • Months laterA forum thread
    • After the deadlineA line in an accountant's email
    • Too lateA friend who had already been caught

    With Heed

    • Soon after it is publishedFrom the official source, matched to you

    A small remote team that ships quickly and checks its sources slowly. No adviser relationship, no commissions on your decisions, no data we do not need.

    How Heed works: detect, match, act.

    Heed watches everything a cross-border life depends on, not only tax rates. Tax rules are covered for every country Heed follows; visas, banking, crypto and company rules for a growing set of countries. Every change passes through three stages, and Heed never mixes them.

    Radar
    Early signals from official channels and the specialist press, always labelled unconfirmed.
    Official proposals
    Followed stage by stage, from the first draft to the vote, so you can prepare before it lands.
    Enacted law
    Published only after an independent check against the authority's own page, with that page one click away.

    Match. Each change is checked against your countries, residency days, income types, companies, assets and plans, so you see only what reaches you, and why. An advisor sees in seconds which clients a rule hits.

    Act. What a change costs you, a checklist with due dates, residency days left and the best day to move, scenarios side by side, visa routes and company setup costs, the Relocation Brief, and Ask Heed answering from cited sources.

    What we believe

    Where Heed keeps it

    A news report can point to a change. It can never prove one. Every confirmed change links to the page of the authority that made it.

    One feedLocal sources

    Every country in your profile, read from its own official sources, in its own language

    Field notes

    Editorial standards

    Field notes are Heed's articles on international tax and residency. Every one follows these rules.

    1. Primary sources only

      Every rate, threshold and deadline in a field note comes from the body that sets it: the tax authority, the finance ministry, the official gazette, the parliament, an EU institution or the treaty text. News reports and law firm summaries can point to a change. They are never the source of a figure.

    2. Checked on publication

      Each figure is checked against the official document on the day the note is published. The documents are listed and linked at the end of every note.

    3. Status and dates stated

      A note says whether a rule is enacted, proposed or in consultation, and when it takes effect. A proposal is never presented as law.

    4. Changes dated

      Every note shows when it was published and, if it has changed since, the date of the latest change.

    5. Corrections

      Found an error? Write to hello@heed.finance. The corrected note carries the date of the correction.

    6. Information, not advice

      Field notes describe the rules and the questions worth raising with a qualified adviser. They are not tax or financial advice, and Heed does not act as your adviser.

    Questions? Reach out at

    hello@heed.finance