Collect tax in Benin

In Benin, Stripe only supports collecting VAT on electronic services. In Stripe, these are referred to as “digital products.” To collect this tax on Stripe, you must be a remote seller without a physical presence in the country.

When to register for tax collection

See Thresholds to get insights about your potential tax registration obligations in Benin. Stripe also notifies you with email and Dashboard alerts when you need to register to collect tax. Learn more about how the monitoring tool works.

Remote sellers providing digital goods or electronically supplied services (digital products) to Beninese customers must register for VAT purposes if the total value of digital goods and services provided to private individuals in Benin within a period of 1 year exceeds 100,000,000 XOF. Sales to business customers in Benin don’t trigger any tax registration obligations because non-resident businesses aren’t required to collect tax on these sales.

• Threshold: 100,000,000 XOF
• Time frame: Current year
• Included transactions: Business-to-consumer (B2C) sales of digital goods or electronically supplied services (digital products)

Register to collect tax

You must be a remote seller with no physical presence in Benin to collect this tax on Stripe.

Find more information on how to register for VAT as a remote seller in Benin on the government website.

After you’ve registered to collect tax in Benin, go to Registrations to add your registrations to Stripe in the Dashboard. This turns on tax calculation and collection in Stripe for your transactions in Benin.

Learn more about how to add your registration in the Dashboard.

How we calculate taxes

We only support calculations for digital products (non-physical items or services that are delivered, given, or rendered electronically) in Benin. Stripe doesn’t calculate tax for products that don’t use a digital product tax code.

View the list of supported digital product tax codes. To calculate taxes in Benin, make sure that you assign a tax code to each of your products.

Report and file your taxes

Stripe provides reports of your completed tax transactions. Go to Registrations to access these reports. Learn more about the different types of reports.

You’re responsible for filing and remitting your taxes to Benin. Stripe doesn’t file taxes on your behalf.