Collect tax in Egypt
Learn how to use Stripe Tax to calculate, collect, and report tax in Egypt.
In Egypt, 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.
When to register for tax collection
See Thresholds to get insights about your potential tax registration obligations in Egypt. 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 consumers in Egypt have a registration threshold of EGP 500,000 for a rolling 12 month period. Sales to business customers in Egypt don’t trigger any tax registration obligations because non-resident businesses aren’t required to collect tax on these sales.
- Threshold: 500,000 EGP
- Time frame: rolling 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 Egypt to collect this tax on Stripe.
Find more information on how to register for VAT in Egypt on the government website.
After you’ve registered to collect tax in Egypt, 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 Egypt.
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 Egypt. 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 Egypt, 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 Egypt. Stripe doesn’t file taxes on your behalf.