Calculate tax in your custom payment flowsPrivate preview

Learn how to integrate taxes with the Stripe Tax and Payment Intents APIs.

The Stripe Tax API enables you to calculate tax in your custom payment flows. If you use the Payment Intents API, Stripe can submit tax transactions in the payment lifecycle.

Calculate tax

You can integrate the Tax API with a PaymentIntent by associating it with a Tax Calculation object. Use calculate tax to get a new Tax Calculation object with information about how much tax to collect.

Link tax calculation to the PaymentIntent

When creating or modifying a PaymentIntent, include the Tax Calculation ID and set the amount to the amount_total of the Tax Calculation object.

Supported endpoints

The following endpoints support setting a calculation on a PaymentIntent.

Create: /v1/payment_intents
Update: /v1/payment_intents/:id
Confirm: /v1/payment_intents/:id/confirm
Capture: /v1/payment_intents/:id/capture

Limitations

You can only link new calculations to a PaymentIntent until it transitions to a succeeded state.
A tax calculation can transition to only one tax Transaction. If multiple PaymentIntents transition to a succeeded state with the same linked calculation, accounting reflects only the first one.

Resulting Stripe actions

If the PaymentIntent is correctly linked to the Tax Calculation object, Stripe automatically:

Creates a tax transaction from the calculation after the PaymentIntent transitions to a succeeded state
Performs a tax reversal of a tax transaction for any refunds (created with API or Dashboard) for the PaymentIntent
Creates a tax reversal for a reversal, if a refund has failed
Includes the total tax information in PaymentIntent receipts

Stripe won’t:

Change the PaymentIntent amount based on the linked tax calculation
Alter the tax transaction amount based on the PaymentIntent captured amount
Automatically create a tax reversal for disputes