rovarma.

[shadow latch]

Hello! Can you share some example sessions that demonstrate the behaviour?

[quick kayak]

You mean a checkout session id?

[shadow latch]

Yes please

[quick kayak]

I think this one: cs_live_b1ReUPE99eE3CCkveHqi7b29TxMwKuUIp4gKH3fPmt5nv1kTxOkxfTohJ0

that's the one from the customer where he entered spain as his country

(note that since the tax was calculated incorrectly, he did not proceed with the purchase)

these are my test sessions from this morning:

billing_address_collection: auto: cs_test_b1Jn4g7b1Aa7oIUomn8Ip2eCwdySwQgn8HJ7nnIrymEEN3neSvxtLoDDC9

billing_address_collection: required: cs_test_b1pV8P3IoK1l7kwN79WlPs1JWOu20Bcq8gxj3QkqfQtU21V9zvgRfvvkjS

[shadow latch]

Yeah I suspect you're going to need to collect a full billing address in this instance as we can calculate tax based on just the country code for non-US customers: https://stripe.com/docs/tax/customer-locations?address-format=everywhere-else#supported-formats

So if the only address info is ES then we will assume a mainland Spain location and apply tax accordingly

[quick kayak]

But...that runs counter with what the Checkout API docs specify for auto:

Checkout will only collect the billing address when necessary. When using automatic_tax, Checkout will collect the minimum number of fields required for tax calculation.

specifically that second sentence (we have automatic_tax configured)

what is the point of auto then, if we need to collect a full address regardless?

[shadow latch]

Checkout will collect the minimum number of fields required for tax calculation
Yeah as stated for non-US customers a country code is the minimum

This is valuable feedback for the tax team so I'd recommend writing in about this: https://support.stripe.com/contact

But as of right now, you'll need to require full address collection

[quick kayak]

Okay. This feels like a really weird limitation given that the Stripe Tax page you linked to also says We use your customer’s billing address if it’s non-empty. Using an address that isn’t precise enough to calculate tax returns a status of requires_location_inputs. . Everything about this seems to indicate that it's at least intended to do this automatically for you, but maybe that's just bad/outdated documentation.