Tax Automation with Stripe Tax

Stripe Tax is a product that automatically collects taxes from your customers based on their location. In addition, Stripe Tax lets you view all the countries where you do business. Allowing you insight into which countries warrant tax collection and offering an easy-to-file/remit your taxes during tax time

To set up Stripe Tax, you need to configure your tax settings within the Dashboard and, depending on your integration, add one line of code.



• Review and confirm that your origin address and pieces of information are correct.
  • The origin address is where your business is located or, if you sell physical goods, the address you are shipping goods from.
• Choose a tax category to apply the tax rate correctly.
  • Default product tax category: A product tax category is a classification of your product or service for Stripe Tax. Stripe uses this to ensure that the correct tax rate is applied to your transactions. Please refer to the tax category document from Stripe.
• Add an active tax registration when you’ve exceeded a tax threshold.
  • When your business exceeds a tax threshold (the sales volume or the number of transactions required to start collecting tax), you must register with the local tax authority before adding tax to your transactions.
• Add Stripe Tax to your integration to start collecting tax.
  • The final step in setting up Stripe Tax is to enable automatic tax on your Stripe integration.

Navigate to Stripe--> More--> Tax or click here

Click on Get Started



Getting Started





Under Business Information click on Add origin address



Business Information





and provide the address of your business and click "Save"



Business Address





Once your address is provided, you can schedule to start collecting taxes 









Select your tax category in the dropdown to calculate the right amount of tax







Select a shipping tax code depending on your chosen category. The default shipping tax code is used for calculating the tax on your shipping fees.







Under Tax Registrations click Add Registration

Select the Country and the States if applicable





On the next screen you'll see the taxes that will be collected for that specific State







You can either start collecting taxes immediately or schedule it at a later date. 





You can repeat the process for all other States you want to collect taxes from.



You have just finished setting up Automated taxes in Stripe!

Enabling automatic tax on your Chord account is only a few clicks away!

Navigate to your OMS and click on Settings --> Store

STRIPE_AUTOMATIC_TAXES_ENABLED  configuration option has been added to your Environment Variables.

Setting that value to true is all it takes!