Automate taxes on all your transactions
Stripe Tax lets you calculate, collect, and report tax on transactions from around the world with a single integration. Gain insights into your tax obligations. Automatically collect the correct amount of tax, file returns through our approved partners, or access reporting to file yourself.
Why Stripe Tax
Don’t let taxes hold you back
Businesses are required to collect taxes in more than 130 countries and in most US states. Staying compliant can be challenging, especially as your business grows. Tax rules and rates change constantly, and they vary based on what and where you sell. If you ignore these complexities, you risk paying penalties and interest on top of uncollected taxes.
We built Stripe Tax to simplify tax compliance, so you can focus on scaling your business.
On average, there is a 30% interest penalty on overdue sales tax in the US.
European registration thresholds vary from €0 in Spain to £85,000 in the UK.
Over 130 countries are taxing digital goods and more countries are planning to impose taxes on digital goods.
Non-EU businesses selling digital goods and services into the EU must collect taxes from their very first sale.
If you don’t collect sales tax from your customers, you’ll have to pay overdue taxes out of your own pocket.
SaaS sales are 100% taxable in New York, 80% in Texas, and non-taxable in California.
In Europe, businesses selling digital products generally need to collect two pieces of non-conflicting evidence to validate a customer’s location.
SaaS is only taxable in some US states, and sometimes only B2B or B2C SaaS is taxed.
Over 80% of startups on Stripe sell into more than 20 states and countries.
In 2021, over 20 countries changed their VAT rates for certain products.
Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon don’t charge state sales tax.
72% of online businesses see compliance as a barrier to international growth.
US sales tax registration thresholds for remote sellers vary from US$100,000 in sales or 200 transactions in most states to US$500,000 in CA, NY and TX.
South Africa and Russia require foreign businesses to charge VAT on B2B SaaS transactions.
How to stay ahead of global tax changes in 2024
Tax laws and regulations are rapidly evolving to keep pace with the shifting global economy. We analysed the latest global tax changes and trends and what they mean to your business. Get the report to help you stay ahead of tax compliance in 2024.
Use cases
Tax automation for any kind of business
Reduce risk and grow faster with streamlined tax for your business
Reduce tax compliance steps as you add new products, experiment with new business models, and expand internationally. Do more by increasing your finance team’s efficiency allowing them to spend less time on manual tasks.
Simplify taxes for your platform or marketplace
Help your users stay compliant with a reliable, easy-to-integrate tax solution designed for platforms and marketplaces. Offer your users a global solution that works with any payment processor with the ability to define your own pricing, branding, and onboarding flow.
How it works
Tax compliance made simple
Integrate in minutes
Collect taxes globally by adding a single line of code to your existing integration, clicking a button in the Dashboard, or with our powerful API.
Know your tax obligations
Stripe Tax monitors your transactions, tells you when and where you might have obligations to register to collect taxes.
Automatically collect taxes
Stripe Tax determines your customer’s precise location and calculates and collects the right amount of tax. It also validates the EU VAT ID and Australian ABN when needed.
File and remit with ease
File using our trusted global partners, or access comprehensive reports to manage filings on your own.
Step 1
Get started in minutes
No-code setup
If you’re using one of Stripe’s no-code products, such as Invoicing and Payment Links, you can collect taxes with the click of a button in the Dashboard.
Low-code setup
Start collecting taxes by adding as little as one line of code to your existing Stripe Billing or Checkout integration.
API Setup
Start collecting taxes in your custom checkout integration using the Stripe Tax API.
Automate tax with any payment processor
Calculate and report tax on all payments – even those that are processed outside Stripe. With the Stripe Tax API you get the flexibility to use multiple payment processors without added tax complexity.
Step 2
Know your tax obligations
Stripe Tax is optimised for tax calculation in over 60 countries and all US states. Understand where you need to collect taxes and activate tax collection in a new market in seconds. Stripe Tax supports both country and VAT OSS registrations in Europe, and country and provincial registrations in Canada.
Step 3
Automatically collect taxes
Always calculate and collect the correct amount of tax, no matter what or where you sell. Stripe Tax supports tax collection on hundreds of products and services and keeps tax rules and rates up to date – so you don’t have to.
Tax localisation
Reduce checkout friction by showing taxes in the most familiar way to your customers, based on the available location information such as currency or zip code.
Tax ID validation
Stripe Tax helps you collect the tax identification number from B2B customers. You can automatically validate VAT IDs and ABNs for European and Australian customers, and apply a reverse charge or zero VAT rate when necessary.
Step 4
Global filing made easy
Save time when reconciling thousands of transactions. Stripe Tax summarises reports to match formatting requirements for each filing location so you can easily file and remit taxes on your own, with your accountant, or with a preferred partner. With our trusted global partners, users benefit from a seamless experience that connects to your Stripe transaction data – letting our partners manage your filings so you can focus on growing your business.
Tax reporting data
Export your tax transaction data to complete your tax filings and returns.
Location-specific sales tax report
Report aggregate transaction data by filing period and summarize it based on each location’s filing requirements.
With Stripe Tax, we’re able to offer a tool that automates, collects, and calculates all taxes for our creators, so they can spend less time on tax compliance and more time growing their business.
Thanks to Stripe Tax, we avoided six months of engineering work and we never have to think about taxes again.
We switched to Stripe from a merchant of record provider because we wanted complete control over our checkout experience and pricing.
Knowing that Stripe understands all of the regulations and keeps everything up to date removes a ton of our customers' fears around managing taxes.
What's included
Stripe Tax at a glance
Integrate quickly and easily
Start collecting taxes globally with as little as clicking a button in the Dashboard, or with our powerful API.
Tax obligation tracking
Monitor your Stripe transactions against local filing thresholds.
Calculation and collection
Automatically collect the correct amount of tax.
Filing and reporting
Get reports to file taxes yourself or access automated filings through one of our partners.
Country coverage
Stripe Tax supports over 50 countries and all US states
Countries with an asterisk (*) are available for remote sellers only.
Resources
Sales tax, VAT and GST resources
Learn more about global tax compliance and how to use Stripe Tax.
- Guide to sales tax, VAT and GST compliance
- Understanding EU VAT and VAT OSS
- Understanding US sales tax and economic nexus
- Understanding how we built Stripe Tax
- Navigating the sales tax registration process in the US
- Navigating the tax registration process in Europe
- Navigating the tax registration process in Canada
Ready to get started?
Stripe Tax is easy to integrate with a click of a button or one line of code.
Payments for your site
Accept payments with Stripe Checkout – our pre-built payment form.
Move your back office forward
Simplify other key business processes such as billing, revenue reporting, and data tools to work seamlessly together with Stripe Tax via our revenue and finance automation platform.