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Comment by ttoinou | Hacker News Reader

Stripe please simplify the whole mess of VAT / GST worldwide reporting & payment to each state/country !

Heya, I'm a product manager at Stripe working on just the thing! You're right, historically we have not helped out much here, but we've been working on some new products to remedy that. I'd be happy to share more and see if it meets your needs, or more importantly understand exactly what you would want to see from Stripe w/r/t tax. Email: kmoriarty@stripe.com

Yes please. Or someone other than Stripe.

I spent a chunk of the Christmas period figuring out international B2B and B2C invoicing requirements, the rules for cross-border VAT/GST/BTW (UK [pre- and post-Brexit]/Australia/Netherlands/EU) sales tax, and when sales tax may be reclaimed on "invalid" invoices.

It was a surprisingly engrossing endeavor. There is a satisfying underlying logical consistency (from the point of view of a non-accountant). I even toyed with codifying the rules in a machine-executable form...

Paddle.com does that. At least in theory, I'm (not yet) a customer and haven't tried it by myself.

Yes they do handle that but they're not as handy to use as Stripe, they are more like a premade store for you, it's hard to customize products.

FastSpring is the same, and even more expensive with expensive currency conversion if you're in EURO

Is it easier to manage if you only stick to EU countries ?

Check out Taxamo. They're actually based in Ireland. Vatlayer was useful but Europe only whereas Taxamo is global

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