Collect tax in Asia Pacific
Learn how to collect tax in a country in Asia Pacific.
In the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, Stripe supports tax calculation for businesses making sales into a range of countries. The requirements for tax registration, as well as which types of transactions are included, vary from country to country.
For each country listed, you can find information about:
The types of tax Stripe can help you collect.
The registration threshold that determines when you’re required to register for tax collection.
What kinds of products or sales are subject to tax calculation.
The types of transactions covered.
Resources about how to register with local tax authorities.
Stripe can collect tax if your business is based in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore and United Arab Emirates. To collect tax on Stripe in other listed APAC countries, your business needs to be a remote seller with no physical presence (such as a shop or warehouse).
Supported product type
All product types
Sales type
Domestic and remote sales
Tax type
VAT
Official resources
Status
No transactions
Transactions included in obligations monitoring
Any taxable transaction
Registration threshold
1 transaction
Threshold and registration for United Arab Emirates
Remote sellers providing digital goods or electronically supplied services (digital products) to customers in United Arab Emirates have to register for tax from their first sale there. Sales to business customers don’t trigger any tax registration obligations as remote sellers aren’t required to collect tax on those sales.
Supported calculations for United Arab Emirates
When both your business and your customer are in the UAE, Stripe calculates VAT unless the sale is exempt or zero-rated. If you’re a remote seller and sell services to customers in the UAE, VAT is typically collected on sales to individuals. No tax is charged on sales to business customers who provide their VAT number. If you provide services related to admission to events and other venues, Stripe Tax considers them taxable in the country where the venue or event is located.
Cross-border sales of goods to United Arab Emirates
When goods are shipped into the UAE from abroad, Stripe treats the sales as an export and doesn’t calculate tax, unless you choose to calculate tax on cross-border goods sales into the UAE through the tax registration settings. Generally, businesses need to collect tax on these sales if they act as the importer for customs purposes. If goods are imported in the customer’s name, the sale is considered to occur outside the UAE, and no UAE VAT is due on the sale. The customer may be responsible under the reverse charge mechanism, which usually applies if the customer is registered and resident in the UAE. Cross-border sales of goods into the UAE might also be subject to import taxes and customs duties, which Stripe doesn’t calculate.