#anthony-tax-upcoming
uncut walrus
my implementation uses the stripe tax beta to calculate the rate and then attaches a tax rate object to the subscription purchase
what could that mean? Stripe Tax is public, are you using something else?
Overall, you can not apply the TaxRate we give you in that endpoint. It's a "fake" rate that is pre-calculated but not active. You have to create your own tax rate if you want to handle this yourself
half laurel
ah sorry it must have gone public recently, i'm using this https://stripe.com/docs/tax
uncut walrus
So why are you attaching tax rate manually yourself? That's not at all how Stripe Tax works with Billing in a normal integration
half laurel
yeah, we would use stripe tax -- however we have business requirements that cannot be handled by stripe tax
specifically, we have gifts where the tax should be calculated based on the recipient's shipping address
however in stripe tax, the tax is automatically calculated by the purchaser's shipping address
and we can't update the gift donor's address to use the recipient's shipping address because the donor can have multiple gifts and a subscription themselves
uncut walrus
yeah not sure I understand, but ultimately you will have to explicitly create the tax rate yourself in that case
half laurel
thanks! understood
uncut walrus
Mostly we render a "read only tax rate" for you to show in the UI and expect you to just let us do this for you sub too and since you do a special flow then it doesn't work the same for you in that case