Thanks for the feedback. We’re working toward an end goal of making tax compliance as simple as clicking a button. In talking with users they called out three big pain points: knowing what the obligations are, knowing what rate/rules to apply and how to calculate tax (e.g. SaaS is taxable at 80% of the base rate of the price in Texas), and then how to file and remit the money once collected. Stripe Tax solves the first two out of the box today, and with TaxJar we’ll be able to bring filing and remittance as a native part of our offering.
Re:Stripe Tax
by bberenberg on Thursday June 10, 2021 @10:13AM
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TaxJar won't handle global. SaaS is inherently global. Your own docs point to other providers for EU. Ultimately you need to have a Stripe MoR option.
Re:Stripe Tax
by Existenceblinks on Thursday June 10, 2021 @02:13PM
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All Indie developers or 1-3 person team need is a Merchant of Record, or simply a SaaS app store without index page like Apple Store. I don't even want to have a /billings page. Please also provide full feature customer portal (refund / cancel / pause / coupon / etc.)
And I want that store to have only literally "one" page for API documentation. All I want to check on my app is `authorized?(user.subscription)`
Re:Stripe Tax
by HatchedLake721 on Thursday June 10, 2021 @10:03AM
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What's the other solution? Stripe to become merchant of record like Paddle.com?
I really hate the Paddle UI but this is the sole reason I'm with them. As a solo entrepreneur the peace of mind is just too good.
If Stripe added a Merchant of Record service, as an optional extra, it would be game over and they would win this space.
Yep, operating as a "reseller" paper-wise. We currently use FastSpring for that
Re:Stripe Tax
by fighterpilot on Thursday June 10, 2021 @05:03PM
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Who's your current payment provider?
Thanks, but no thanks. I'll stick with my current payment provider that handles _everything_.
I do admire Stripe and wish I could move some day :(