Why Cicada
Complex withholding decisions deserve a clearer path.
Determining tax residency and withholding treatment for international income recipients is consequential, specialized work. Yet the facts needed to decide often arrive across forms, documents, email, and institutional systems.
Cicada is being built to help higher education specialists understand what needs attention, act earlier, and move incomplete cases toward a well-supported decision while retaining oversight and judgment.
Our approach
Clarify the decision. Move the work forward.
- Make complex residency and withholding decisions clearer
- Help specialists act earlier, before payment deadlines
- Recommend a path when the facts support one
- Explain uncertainty and what information is still needed
- Make automation configurable, not mandatory
- Keep institutions in control of decisions
Built with practitioners
The people closest to the work should shape the product.
Cicada is being developed through partnerships with higher-education payroll, tax, HR, and international-services professionals.
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Meet the team
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