Tax in Europe

Stripe supports tax calculation for businesses making sales into a range of countries in Europe. We also support tax calculation in all of the countries in the European Union (EU).

Stripe can collect tax if your business is based in Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and the United Kingdom. To collect tax on Stripe in other supported European countries, your business needs to be a remote seller with no physical presence (such as a shop or warehouse).

When and how to register for tax collection

Different rules determine when and how you need to register to collect tax depending on the country. To see your country’s registration resources, go to Collect tax in a country in the European Union.

See Thresholds to get insights about your potential tax registration obligations in each location. Stripe only monitors if you have reached a tax threshold for sales outside of the country your business is based in. 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.

After you’ve registered with a country, go to Registrations to add your registrations to Stripe in the Dashboard to start collecting tax on your transactions in that location.

How we calculate taxes

Learn how Stripe calculates taxes for your sales in Europe.

Map your product to our product tax codes

Stripe can calculate tax for any of the product tax codes you assign to your products and for domestic and cross-border sales in Norway, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and the United Kingdom. For other supported countries in Europe, Stripe can only calculate tax for digital products sold by remote sellers. Digital products are non-physical items or services that are delivered, given, or rendered electronically. This includes digital goods and electronically supplied services. We determine whether you’re selling digital products or physical goods using the product tax code you assigned to your product.

Domestic transactions

A transaction where your business and your customer are in the same country is called a domestic transaction. Stripe assumes the sale of most goods or services to be taxable unless the tax authority has specifically made them exempt.

Cross-border transactions

A cross-border transaction is where your customer is located in a different country to your business or when goods are shipped from one country to another.

Stripe calculates tax on a cross-border transaction taking into account the following factors:

• The location of your business.
• The tax registrations you’ve added to Stripe.
• The location of the buyer.
• The location where the activity is performed.
• The type of the product sold (based on which product tax code you assigned to your product).
• The status of the customer (whether they’re an individual or a business).

Report and file your taxes

Stripe Tax has filing partners—Taxually, Marosa, and Hands-off Sales Tax (HOST)—to help automate your tax filing. These partners automatically sync your tax transaction data in real time, eliminating the need for manual data entry or file transfers. Learn more about tax filing.

Stripe also provides reports of your completed tax transactions. Go to Registrations to access these reports. Learn more about the different types of reports.