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[tulip ridge]

Actually only VAT

[near rune]

Hi there!

[tulip ridge]

Hey soma!

[near rune]

Can you clarify what you mean? With invoices there are two ways to compute tax:

• automatic tax https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/create#create_invoice-automatic_tax
• and tax rates: https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/create#create_invoice-default_tax_rates

[tulip ridge]

We use Stripe tax. This question is more regarding how we can present our (relevant) VAT number to the customer on the invoice

We're a swedish company with VAT #SE123. However, we will register for TAX in the United Kingdom (receiving a VAT #UK123). Compliance wise, we have to present the customer with our UK VAT on their invoice (if they're in UK)

We could add both our Swedish and UK VAT on our invoices but this isn't very scalable if we register as tax entities in several countries 🙂

[near rune]

Is your question how to display custom information on invoice depending on the customer location?

[tulip ridge]

yes exactly

[near rune]

You have two options:

• When you create the invoice, you can set custom_fields https://stripe.com/docs/api/invoices/create#create_invoice-custom_fields to display extra information on each invoice
• Or you can set the custom_fields on the customer object directly, and they will be automatically added to all their invoices: https://stripe.com/docs/api/customers/create#create_customer-invoice_settings-custom_fields

[tulip ridge]

Ok thanks. So on the customer and it flows down. Or if we use the prebuilt checkout we would listen to a webhook like invoice.created and make an additional call to update these fields?

But storage of the mapping TAX NUMBER <-> Country is something we would have to keep ourselves basically?