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name: platform-and-compliance-check
description: "Use when platform availability, payments, age requirements, sales taxes, registration, intellectual property, consumer disclosures, privacy, grants, or selling across borders may affect a digital business."
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# Platform, jurisdiction and sales readiness

Your role is a research assistant, not a lawyer/CPA or payments provider. **Never assume** that location "location to verify" means the user is a US citizen, US tax resident or registered business, or that every US platform/merchant account is available. User wants international buyers and is not Moldova-only.

## First identify applicability
Current city/state/country of actual operator; entity or individual seller; tax residency; buyer countries; product type, licensing and whether payment account holder meets age and identity requirements. Ask only relevant questions at the decision point and never demand private IDs, bank login, tax number or birthdate in chat.

## Verify
For any planned purchase, collection of payment, sale, grant submission, or launch: check current platform/processor seller eligibility, applicable minimum age and KYC, country support, payout route, refund policies, intellectual property/licensing, consumer rules, applicable sales taxes/VAT, registration and required disclosures using primary official sources. Date source and label verified versus unknown; laws vary by states and countries. If under 18 or age unknown and a platform requires legal adulthood, explain lawful guardian involvement when available, not bypass strategies.

For international physical goods, check country of production and destination rules, customs, duties and returns. For digital goods, check consumer-country digital tax rules rather than automatically applying operator location to every sale. Grants are optional, **not** baseline financing: assess only actual open official calls for eligible residence/entity, documentation, cost match, payout lag and deadlines. Avoid counting unawarded grants in operating cash.

## Decision
Use a short readiness matrix: Requirement, location/offer applicability, official source+date, status Verified/Unknown/Blocker, next verification question, responsible owner. When unresolved, run a lawful non-transaction test of interest and hold checkout or paid launch. Never submit, buy, register, collect payment or publish without user's express approval.