What the five checks mean
When you have engineers in Egypt but no company there, the day-to-day works fine, which is exactly why the risk stays invisible until it is expensive. This scan makes it visible. Each check is a real exposure we see on the ground, not a theoretical one.
Permanent establishment is the one most founders miss: people doing your core work in Egypt can be treated as a taxable presence for your company itself, which means Egyptian corporate tax, registration, and penalties, applied backwards. Misclassification turns a full-time contractor into an employee in the eyes of the law, with back social insurance, back tax, and end-of-service claims. Personal tax lands on the engineer, whose undeclared foreign income is increasingly visible, and if they get hit, you lose the person. FX and banking can freeze the account the money lands in. And a broken IP chain means the code may not cleanly belong to you, which surfaces at your next raise or exit.
An Employer of Record removes all five at once: RowBranch becomes the compliant local employer, so your people are properly employed, paid and protected, and you keep directing the work. Your branch in Egypt without opening one.