Stripe Tax

Stripe Tax, from Stripe, is a sales-tax and VAT product that works inside Stripe’s checkout, billing and invoicing. Stripe’s pricing page says it monitors tax thresholds, calculates rates across more than 700 product and service types and collects tax in more than 100 countries, and it offers two plans: Tax Basic, which calculates and collects, and Tax Complete, which adds registration and filing.¹

Tax Basic has no recurring fee: it charges 0.5% per transaction on the no-code integrations (Billing, Checkout, Invoicing and Payment Links), or 50¢ per transaction through the API, in jurisdictions where the seller is registered to collect tax; each API transaction includes 10 calculation calls and further calls cost 5¢ each.¹ Tax Complete starts at $90 a month, with tiers at $430, $1,000 and $1,500 a month on a one-year contract, each capping registrations a year, transactions a month, calculation calls a month and filings a year, and it includes registrations, calculations and filings.¹ Stripe registers and files itself in Canada (federal simplified), the EU (non-Union one-stop shop) and the US, and uses partner integrations for filing in more than 90 countries, with partner pricing on top.¹ The difference matters for the time a founder spends: on Tax Basic the registering and filing stay with the seller, which is why our fee posts treat Stripe Tax as a tool that calculates and collects but doesn’t file, unlike a merchant of record.¹ Neither plan is advice on whether or where a business must register; that is set by each tax authority.