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.
Streamline tax compliance in one solution
Save time, cut costs, and enjoy a seamless user experience by managing your VAT, sales tax, and GST needs in one place. Stripe Tax makes the entire process easy – from obligation monitoring to filings.
Expand globally with confidence
Stripe Tax supports over 100 countries across 600+ product types, so you can scale without tax worries. With 99.999% uptime, it calculates taxes in real time, helping you avoid manual corrections and penalties.
Speed up tax compliance
Stripe Tax is built into Stripe, so it fits seamlessly into your existing revenue and compliance processes. Get started with a click of a button, one line of code, or through our API.
Reduce risk with automation
Tracking tax requirements and deadlines is tedious and prone to errors. Stripe Tax automates the process, ensuring accurate tax collection and timely filings.
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 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.
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 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
End-to-end tax compliance solution
Integrate in minutes
Collect taxes globally by clicking a button in the Dashboard, adding a single line of code to your existing integration, or with our powerful API.
Know your obligations and register quickly
Stripe Tax monitors your transactions and tells you when and where you have tax obligations. It helps you register globally and prefills subsequent registrations, allowing you to submit in new locations in under a minute.
Automatically collect taxes
Stripe Tax determines your customer’s precise location and calculates and collects the right amount of tax. It also validates VAT IDs when needed.
File with ease
Stripe Tax seamlessly integrates with filing partners, so your global filings are accurate and timely. It also provides 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.
Automate tax with any payment processor
Calculate and report tax on all payments – even ones 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 and register quickly
Understand where you need to collect taxes, and activate tax collection in a new market in minutes. Let Stripe manage your global tax registrations, saving you time with prefilled application details and reducing errors.