Collect tax in Guinea

In Guinea, Stripe only supports collecting VAT for electronically provided 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 Guinea. 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 electronic services (digital products) to individuals in Guinea have to register for tax from their first sale there. Sales to business customers in Guinea don’t trigger any tax registration obligations because non-resident businesses aren’t required to collect tax on these sales.

• Threshold: 1 transaction
• 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 Guinea to collect this tax on Stripe.

Find more information on how to register for VAT in Guinea on the government website.

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

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