Flamingo Compliance
Tax residency and visa tracking for the globally mobile
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Flamingo Compliance - Tax residency and visa tracking for the globally mobile

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Counting tax residency days in your head — or a spreadsheet — breaks down when countries look across multiple years or apply fractional day counts. Flamingo Compliance turns your travel history into a continuous record: residency and domicile trackers, long-term visa tracking, exportable reports, Schengen, and visa requirements — all on-device. Advanced trackers now model rules like the U.S. Substantial Presence Test and Irish-style thresholds. For expats, HNWIs, nomads, advisors. iOS.

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Hey Product Hunt Community 👋 We just launched Multi-Year Tax Residency Tests in Flamingo Compliance — the most complex residency rules out there, now built into the app. Some tax rules don't just count days in one calendar year. They look across multiple years, apply fractional day counts (the U.S. Substantial Presence Test is the classic), or stack annual and cumulative thresholds. Flamingo Compliance now tracks these automatically, factors in your upcoming trips, and warns you well before you approach a limit. For anyone meeting Flamingo Compliance for the first time: it's a professional iOS app for tracking tax residency, domicile, and long-term visas across countries, US states, and cities. Your travel timeline builds automatically from your phone (no data leaves your device), Schengen 90/180 is handled, and you can export compliance reports to send straight to your accountant or lawyer. Free to try for 30 days on install. Would love feedback or feature ideas — especially from expats, HNWIs, frequent travelers, pilots, and tax or immigration advisors 🙏

Do you pull trip history automatically from calendar or location data, or is it manual entry only?

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 Great question! Flamingo gives you three ways to build your trip history, so you can mix automatic tracking with manual control:

  1. Automatic location tracking – Flamingo Compliance detects your stays in the background based on city-level location (not precise GPS).

  2. Photo Library scanning – Flamingo Compliance can reconstruct past travel by reading the timestamps and location data embedded in your photos. We never view or upload the photos themselves — only the metadata.

  3. Manual entry – You can add any stay yourself, including upcoming trips for planning ahead.

We don't currently pull from your calendar, but the automatic tracking and photo scan together usually rebuild a complete history with minimal manual work.

Day counting is where tax residency tools tend to give false confidence. Someone hits 183 days and assumes they're a resident, or misses it and assumes they're not - but the real determination often turns on domicile, center of vital interests, or tie-breaker rules in specific tax treaties, none of which live in a travel log. My question: does Flamingo surface those caveats clearly, or does the output read as a definitive status? The multi-year SPT tracking is genuinely useful but I'd want users to understand what it can and can't determine.

Maker

 You've put your finger on the exact thing we design around. Flamingo Compliance tracks and documents days — it doesn't determine residency. Output is framed as presence against a threshold you set (and confirm with your advisor), Domicile is a separate tracker, and the multi-year tools model only the day-count side of a test, not ties, domicile, or treaty tie-breakers. Those determinations belong with a professional, while what we're trying to be is the reliable evidence layer underneath them.