Use the Registrations API to manage tax registrations
Learn how to add, schedule, and check active tax registrations.
Businesses are required to register to collect taxes in locations where they have tax obligations. The Tax Registration API lets you retrieve and configure tax registrations using an API instead of the Dashboard. Adding your registrations in Stripe turns on tax calculation and collection for your transactions made through Stripe.
Different rules determine when and how a business needs to register to collect tax depending on the location. You can also use Stripe to register on your behalf or do it yourself. Learn more about tax collection in different locations.
- Connect platform: As a platform, you can use this API to manage the registrations of your connected accounts or to check an account’s active registrations.
- Direct usage: You can use this API to manage and check your registrations.
List all tax registrations for your connected accounts 
To get a list of your connected accounts’ tax registrations, make a list registrations call. You can filter the response by setting the status parameter to active, expired, or scheduled.
If your connected accounts don’t have access to the Stripe Dashboard, your platform can provide a UI for them to manage their tax registrations. The registrations endpoint helps you implement that functionality.
Add a tax registration for your connected account
If a tax obligation and registration of the connected account is known to the platform, you can perform a create registration call using the Stripe-Account header with a value of the connected account ID to add or schedule the registration for the connected account.
In this case, a tax. object is created in the connected account.
{ "object": "tax.registration", "active_from": 1669249440, "country": "IE", "country_options": { "ie": { "type": "oss_union" } }, "livemode": false, "status": "active", ... }
Alternatively, for connected accounts with access to the Stripe Dashboard (for example, Standard accounts), you can instruct them to set up Stripe Tax using the Dashboard, which includes adding tax registrations.
Head office address requirement
To add a tax registration, the connected account must first set up a head office address. Without a defined head office address, an invalid_ gets triggered with a message about setting your head office address.
Use the tax settings API to add a head office address as a platform:
Location-specific validation and errors might occur, details of which are found in our tax settings guide.
Update and expire a tax registration for your connected account
You can’t delete a registration after it’s created, but you can end it by setting expires_ to a time when the registration is no longer active. Update the registrations with an update registration call using the Stripe-Account header with a value of the connected account ID:
In this case, the registration expires immediately. Tax calculations performed for the connected account after the expires_ won’t use this registration.
{ "object": "tax.registration", "active_from": 1669248000, "created": 1669219200, "expires_at": 1669334400, "livemode": false, "status": "active", ... }