yevgeniy-tax-charge

[foggy walrus]

Hello @rough vortex, thanks for threading my question

[rough vortex]

Hey there, Stripe Tax only supports Checkout Billing and Invoicing integrations, you can't get automatic tax on Charges or Payment Intents
https://stripe.com/docs/tax/faq#what-integrations-do-you-support

If you want to add tax on these payments, you need to calculate it yourself and adjust the amount of the payment

[foggy walrus]

So the only ways I can get taxes calculated automatically are either creating Checkout Billing or Invoices, am I right?

[rough vortex]

Correct -- if you want taxes on one-time payments, you should look at whether using Checkout is suitable for your business

[foggy walrus]

However, on the frontend side we are using customized Stripe Elements. But I assume I can tax a payment with Billing or Invoice APIs on the backend

But the only problem with Invoices is the following error:

{
"error": {
"code": "invoice_no_customer_line_items",
"doc_url": "https://stripe.com/docs/error-codes/invoice-no-customer-line-items",
"message": "Nothing to invoice for customer",
"param": "customer",
"type": "invalid_request_error"
}
}

[rough vortex]

You need to create some invoice items first

https://stripe.com/docs/invoicing/integration#create-invoice-code

[foggy walrus]

So I created an invoice item based on Customer id, amount and currency. Should I create an Invoice object now?

[rough vortex]

yep! though for getting Tax support i think you'll need to use Prices (which have Products to define their tax code and tax behavior)

[foggy walrus]

Alright, thank you so much for your kind help! It's truly appreciated!🙏

[rough vortex]

Quite welcome!