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sweet mesaBOT Nov 3, 2022, 7:52 PM

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frozen yoke Nov 3, 2022, 7:53 PM

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Hi 👋

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The Tax ID can be stored in different places depending on the business_type property

flint remnant Nov 3, 2022, 7:53 PM

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Is it called something different in those cases? Searching for "tax_id" in the API docs is only bringing up results referring to customer IDs.

frozen yoke Nov 3, 2022, 7:55 PM

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Wait, sorry I'm thinking of the individual, which still only provides boolean values for whether or not they are provided.

flint remnant Nov 3, 2022, 8:02 PM

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Is the account's tax ID not actually retrievable via the API?

frozen yoke Nov 3, 2022, 8:03 PM

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I do believe this is considered PII that we do not permit access to via the API.

flint remnant Nov 3, 2022, 8:06 PM

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Could you help verify if this can be set via the API, at least? Our use case is that we need both Stripe and our application to have the tax ID stored (so we can include it in our self-generated invoices), but we want to avoid having the user enter this information twice.

frozen yoke Nov 3, 2022, 8:08 PM

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I don't believe that is something permitted via the API. We request the Tax ID from the Connect Account during Stripe hosted onboarding.

flint remnant Nov 3, 2022, 8:11 PM

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Crap, so there's no method for the account tax ID to be set or fetched via the API? If you can confirm that, then we'll back out of our current plans and come up with a different strategy.

frozen yoke Nov 3, 2022, 8:13 PM

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Wait no, you can set it if you have it first. You just cannot access it if the company/individual did not provide it to you themselves.

For a company: https://stripe.com/docs/api/accounts/create#create_account-company-tax_id
Individual: https://stripe.com/docs/api/accounts/create#create_account-individual-id_number

flint remnant Nov 3, 2022, 8:13 PM

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Cool, so it's API-settable, but only when an account is being created. We can work with that. Thanks so much!

frozen yoke Nov 3, 2022, 8:15 PM

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Which makes sense when you think about PII. It's not Stripe's problem if you already have the IDs. But we don't want to be the ones who provide it if the Account holder doesn't give it to you.

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I was looking at the Account Object, which only allows you to see if they have been received.

flint remnant Nov 3, 2022, 8:24 PM

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Makes perfect sense. Thanks for checking on that for us!

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