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drifting coyote
How are you calculating the tax? Which APIs/products are you using to collect payment for the product?
fathom bronze
For more context, there's due to be 1000's of products globally so need to ensure that the tax/vat that is applied when a user completes a checkout session is the tax/vat for where the product is being sold. Example if a product is sold in Germany then the vat should be 19%, if a product is sold in Texas (general rather than local taxing jurisdictions|) then it should be 6.25%
Currently using the standard approach from Stripe, only setup country tax customisations as and when products are launched there
drifting coyote
Sounds like you're using Stipe Tax and reliant on us calculating this automatically based on customer location? Do you have a cs_xxx ID where tax was not applied unexpectedly?
fathom bronze
That's the standard approach to have Stripe calculate the tax based on customer location right? The approach I need is to be able to calculate the tax based on the product location
Sure give me a moment to find one
drifting coyote
That's the standard approach to have Stripe calculate the tax based on customer ...
That is not supported with Stripe Tax. You'd instead need to use manual tax rates with the session according to product location: https://docs.stripe.com/payments/checkout/use-manual-tax-rates
fathom bronze
ah ok I thought that might be the case but worth checking through
perfect ok, so tax_rate has to be assigned at time of creation for the checkout session
it can't be appended to a product?
drifting coyote
perfect ok, so tax_rate has to be assigned at time of creation for the checkout ...
Exactly
drifting coyote
it can't be appended to a product?
No