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Re:Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative by a2128 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @05:50PM (#37055914)
This looks cool, but I'm curious about how taxes work with this setup. From my understanding, Gumroad handles sales tax for you in a number of countries (US and EU at least). Does Easyful do something similar, or is that left up to the user to go through that headache on their own?
Re:Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative by jhartist on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @06:27PM (#37056316)
Stripe actually handles taxes for you with Payment Links, and Easyful is just a fulfillment layer on top of that.

Check out the Stripe docs page about it: https://stripe.com/docs/tax/paymentlinks

Re:Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative by wahnfrieden on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:10PM (#37056693)
Stripe does not act as Merchant of Record. So it is not directly comparable to Gumroad, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle.
Re:Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative by a2128 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:44PM (#37056961)
That's the term/information I was looking for. Thank you
Re:Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative by tansan on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @08:22PM (#37057251)
Could you share the implication this?
Re:Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative by coder543 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @09:55PM (#37057867)
I’m not an accountant, but I think the distinction is that the MoR will handle both the collection and remittance of tax for you, including filing any necessary paperwork. You get money deposited in your bank account, and you deliver product to customers, but you’re not worried about remitting taxes.

If Stripe collects the tax and sets it aside, that’s helpful, but it still means you have to figure out which jurisdictions you owe tax to, and figure out how to get the taxes delivered and reported to those jurisdictions (“remitted”), which can be a headache, to say the least.

Re:Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative by rmbyrro on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @07:07AM (#37060965)
If you're an individual digital creator in, say, South Africa, why would you worry about paying taxes in Norway for $500 that came from customers there?

I mean, big, established companies are a big target. But it doesn't seem that the Norway Revenue Service would spend time finding who's Joe from South Africa who sold a $50 ebook to 10 Norwegians...

Re:Show HN: Easyful – A Free Gumroad Alternative by XCSme on Friday August 11, 2023 @01:46PM (#37091571)
"Why not just do tax fraud?"