Collect tax in Ethiopia

In Ethiopia, Stripe only supports collecting VAT on digital 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 Ethiopia. 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 Ethiopian customers must register for Service Tax purposes if the total value of digital goods and services provided to private individuals in Ethiopia within a period of 12 months exceeds 2,000,000 ETB. Sales to business customers in Ethiopia don’t trigger any tax registration obligations because non-resident businesses aren’t required to collect tax on these sales.

• Threshold: 2,000,000 ETB
• Time frame: 12 months
• 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 Ethiopia to collect this tax on Stripe.

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

After you’ve registered to collect tax in Ethiopia, 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 Ethiopia.

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 Ethiopia. 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 Ethiopia, 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 Ethiopia. Stripe doesn’t file taxes on your behalf.