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
Sales type
Remote sales
Tax type
VAT
Official resources
Status
No transactions
Transactions included in obligations monitoring
B2C sales of digital products.
Registration threshold
1 transaction
Threshold and registration for South Korea
Remote sellers providing digital goods or electronically supplied services (digital products) to consumers in South Korea must register for VAT purposes as from the first sale. There are no registration thresholds for non-resident service providers. Sales to business customers in South Korea don’;t trigger any tax registration obligations as remote sellers aren’t required to collect tax on such sales.
Supported calculations for South Korea
In South Korea, 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 (non-physical items or services that are delivered, given, or rendered electronically) in South Korea. 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 South Korea, make sure that you assign a tax code to each of your products.