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eager spear
hi! could you elaborate a little bit? For example you mention excluding the USA, would you have a tax registration in the US? are you intending to not calculate tax for all customers there, or customers in certain circumstances or so on, and why?
drifting cargo
Hi Mr. @eager spear.
Sure. My bad! I don't wanna calculate a tax for all customers there. I wanna make sure that it won't show/calculate a tax for USA customers in the checkout page. I added a registration for Europe but that is also aplied to USA customers when they enter their billing address.
eager spear
hmm, let me do some research, since I don't think it's supposed to calculate tax if you're not registrered there and my understanding is you would just get 0 tax applied without a registration. If you have an example PaymentIntent/CheckoutSession/Invoice ID where that happened that would be great
drifting cargo
Exactly or a message that like not TAX!
eager spear
do you have an example I can look at?
drifting cargo
eager spear
thanks, will look in a bit
note I'm going to pay that session, just because that makes it easier to use some tools we have
drifting cargo
it is a test mode. it's fine. I can create a new one if u need.
eager spear
seems normal to me really based on the docs and that's how tax should be applied for a US customer buying from you in Germany
Digital goods / ESS
Generally taxable in the customer’s country. An exception applies if the seller’s turnover from sales of physical and digital goods to private persons in other EU countries doesn’t exceed 10,000 EUR. In such circumstances, the VAT of the seller’s country applies.
https://stripe.com/docs/tax/regional-calculation#provision-of-services
really I don't know though, I'm not a tax expert. I assume what we do is correct
drifting cargo
Which means that it is how it works and nothing can be done? I can provide USA customers an invoice for their tax reports?
eager spear
honestly I have no idea
drifting cargo
If it exceeds the given amount, do I need to register in the US states?
eager spear
I really don't know, we mainly answer API questions here
drifting cargo
honestly I have no idea
Actually, it helped me understand.
eager spear
I'm asking some colleagues to have a look but might be best to contact https://support.stripe.com/?contact=true
drifting cargo
great! Thanks, Mr. @eager spear. I tried to work around with the stripe golang sdk but if I don't understand how it works, it won't help I guess.
eager spear
apparently tax is applied here because
you use the product code (General - Services) for the Product in the CheckoutSession and from the docs link above:
Other services
Taxable in the seller’s country when provided to private persons and in the customer’s country when provided to other businesses.
