Every jurisdiction has its own rules for when your sales trigger a tax registration obligation — revenue thresholds, zero-threshold rules for foreign sellers, EU-wide schemes like OSS and IOSS. Compliance Radar watches your live transaction data against those rules in 40+ jurisdictions, including US state-level thresholds, and tells you when you're approaching or past the point where registration is required. Always free for up to 5 countries.
You don't get a letter when your rolling-twelve-month sales into a US state pass its economic nexus threshold, or when your EU cross-border B2C sales cross the OSS threshold. You find out later — from an auditor, a marketplace, or a penalty notice. The rules differ by jurisdiction in three ways that make manual tracking impractical.
US states set economic nexus thresholds measured over rolling or calendar-year windows. EU countries hold local businesses to one threshold — and many require foreign sellers to register from their very first sale, with no threshold at all. Compliance Radar applies the correct rule per jurisdiction, including whether your business is established there or selling in from abroad.
The same revenue can be under the threshold in one jurisdiction's window and over it in another's. Compliance Radar computes each jurisdiction's own lookback window — calendar year, current-plus-preceding year, rolling twelve months — against your actual transactions, not an annualized estimate.
Compliance Radar re-evaluates your position every few hours and keeps each jurisdiction in a clear state — so the dashboard answers "where do I need to act?" at a glance, sorted by urgency.
| Status | What it means | What you should do |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring | You have sales in this jurisdiction, but you're comfortably below its registration threshold. | Nothing — Compliance Radar is keeping an eye on it. |
| Approaching threshold | Your tracked sales have reached 80% of the jurisdiction's threshold within its measuring window. | Start preparing — registration typically takes weeks, and the remaining 20% can go quickly. |
| Registration required | The threshold has been crossed — or the jurisdiction has no threshold for sellers like you and you have booked sales there. Compliance Radar identifies the exact transaction that crossed the line. | Register. One click asks the Clearvo team for registration support in that jurisdiction. |
| Registered | A registration is in place (or pending) — the obligation is met. Your revenue in the jurisdiction stays visible as context. | Nothing — you're compliant here. |
Thresholds and rules are maintained by our tax content team and updated as jurisdictions change them — you never maintain a rule table yourself.
Compliance Radar is built on your live transaction data in Clearvo — every sale that flows through Tax Calculations feeds it automatically. There is nothing separate to integrate.
Every transaction you calculate tax on — via the API, an integration, or an ERP connector — is already jurisdiction-resolved. Compliance Radar discovers new jurisdictions from your actual sales, so a market you never thought about starts being monitored the moment you first sell into it.
Each jurisdiction's threshold, measuring window, customer-type scope, and establishment rules are applied to your position — including EU-wide schemes like OSS and IOSS, which are correctly tracked as a single pool across all member states rather than country by country.
At 80% of a threshold you get an early warning. When registration is required, you see the exact transaction that triggered it — useful evidence for advisers and auditors — and a one-click way to ask the Clearvo team for registration support. Alerts appear in the dashboard and by email.
Obligations are also available programmatically — the same data the dashboard shows, in your own systems.
View the API documentation →Compliance Radar is Clearvo's registration-obligation monitor. It continuously measures your sales against each jurisdiction's tax registration rules — revenue thresholds, measuring windows, and foreign-seller rules — across 40+ jurisdictions including US state economic nexus thresholds and EU schemes like OSS and IOSS, and alerts you when you're approaching or past the point where you must register.
Most jurisdictions only require a business to register for VAT, GST, or sales tax once its sales there exceed a set amount within a defined window — for example, a US state's economic nexus threshold over a rolling twelve months, or an EU country's domestic threshold over a calendar year. Many jurisdictions apply a zero threshold to foreign sellers, meaning registration is required from the first sale. Crossing a threshold without registering creates back-tax liability and penalties.
No. Compliance Radar runs on the transaction data you already send to Clearvo for Tax Calculations. It even discovers jurisdictions automatically: if you start selling somewhere new, monitoring for that jurisdiction begins on its own — you don't have to know in advance which markets to watch.
Yes — Compliance Radar is always free for up to 5 countries, on every plan, with no time limit and no sales call. Sign up, run transactions through Clearvo, and monitoring starts automatically.
The jurisdiction moves to "Registration required" in your dashboard, you're alerted, and Compliance Radar records the exact transaction that crossed the threshold — the date your obligation began, which advisers and tax authorities will ask for. From there, one click asks the Clearvo team for support with the registration itself.
Always free for up to 5 countries. No sales call, no setup.
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