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.
Reduce risk with automation
Stripe Tax monitors thresholds, tracks rate changes, and calculates tax in real time with 99.999% historical uptime. Collect accurately and file on time to help avoid manual corrections and penalties.
Expand with confidence
Calculate tax across 100+ countries and 600+ product categories. Stripe Tax works for B2B, B2C, subscriptions and marketplaces, so you can scale without rebuilding your tax logic.
Launch quickly and easily
Stripe Tax is built into Stripe and easily integrates with your existing revenue and compliance processes. Get started with a click in the Dashboard, one line of code, or through the API.
Streamline tax compliance
From obligation monitoring to filing, manage sales tax, VAT and GST in the same platform you use for payments and billing. Connect your e-commerce, accounting, or tax tools to sync data across channels.
See why Stripe was named a Leader in the “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled SaaS Sales and Use Tax Automation Software for Small and Midmarket 2024 Vendor Assessment”.
Tax compliance made simple
Don’t let taxes hold you back
Businesses are required to collect taxes in more than 170 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.
Interest and penalties on uncollected sales tax vary in the US – they can easily exceed 30% of the sales tax due.
European registration thresholds vary from €0 in Spain to £90,000 in the UK.
Over 100 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.
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.
Malaysia, Mexico, and Indonesia require foreign businesses to charge VAT on B2B SaaS transactions.
Foreign businesses must appoint a tax representative for VAT registration in Mexico and Switzerland.
Remote sellers marketing to Canadian customers may need up to five tax registrations in Canada.
About 17% of businesses' VAT registration requests with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in 2024 were rejected.
Easily navigate 2026 tax changes
This guide highlights the latest global tax changes impacting your business in 2026. It explains how to maintain compliance within an ever-evolving regulatory environment.
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 compliance software 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.
Shift your tax responsibility with a merchant of record
Stripe Managed Payments is a merchant of record solution that takes on global tax responsibility in 75 countries and 35 product categories. It also handles payments, fraud, disputes and customer support to reduce operational overhead as you grow.
How it works
End-to-end tax compliance solution
Integrate in minutes
Add a single line of code to your existing integration, or enable tax collection directly in the Dashboard.
Know your obligations
See when and where you have tax obligations. Stripe Tax monitors your transactions and helps you register globally – and submit in new locations in under a minute.
Collect taxes automatically
Stripe Tax calculates and collects the right amount of tax based on your customer's location and it validates VAT IDs when needed.
File with confidence
Automate global filings through Stripe or our pre-integrated filing partners. You can also use our detailed reports to file on your own.
Step 1
Get started in minutes
Add tax without code
Quickly start collecting taxes on Stripe transactions with a single click in the Stripe Dashboard.
Add tax with code
Add tax collection to your custom checkout integration using the Stripe Tax API.