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I will present a series of numerical X-ray spectro-polarimetric models that are designed to study reprocessing of coronal radiation from equatorial components of active galactic nuclei and X-ray binary systems. First, local reflection tables for a constant density slab with precomputed ionization structure are introduced. These are then used inside a fully relativistic code KYNSTOKES that integrates reflected radiation from a geometrically thin disc, assuming a lamp-post or sandwich emitting corona geometry, and that allows to fit X-ray data in XSPEC. The local reflection tables are also used inside the xsstokes codes suitable for XSPEC fitting of reflected emission from nearly neutral regions of the accretion disc, from the broad line regions or from the dusty tori of active galactic nuclei. Examples of usage of all the models in interpreting the latest X-ray polarization data from the IXPE mission operating in 2-8 keV will be provided.