# 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**

  [Digital products](https://docs.stripe.com/tax/tax-codes.md?type=digital)

- **Your business location**
❌ Not supported
- **Your customer location**
✓ Supported
- **Tax type**

  VAT

- **Official resources**

  [Domestic VAT registration](https://taxservice.mof.gov.la/)

- **Status**

  - None No transactions

- **Transactions included in [obligations monitoring](https://docs.stripe.com/tax/monitoring.md)**

  B2C and B2B sales of [digital products](https://docs.stripe.com/tax/tax-codes.md?type=digital)

- **Registration threshold**

  1 transaction in 12 months

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## Threshold and registration for Laos 

Remote sellers providing digital goods or electronically supplied services (digital products) to Lao customers must register for VAT purposes if there is at least one transaction of digital goods and services provided to customers in Laos within a period of 12 months.

## Supported calculations for Laos 

In Laos, Stripe only supports collecting VAT for 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.

We only support calculations for [digital products](https://docs.stripe.com/tax/tax-codes.md?type=digital) (non-physical items or services that are delivered, given, or rendered electronically) in Laos. 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](https://docs.stripe.com/tax/tax-codes.md?type=digital). To calculate taxes in Laos, make sure that you [assign a tax code](https://docs.stripe.com/tax/products-prices-tax-codes-tax-behavior.md#tax-code-on-product) to each of your products.

## See also

- [Set up Stripe Tax](https://docs.stripe.com/tax/set-up.md)
- [Register for sales tax, VAT, and GST](https://docs.stripe.com/tax/registering.md)
- [Use Stripe to register](https://docs.stripe.com/tax/use-stripe-to-register.md)