Collect tax in France

France is part of the EU and applies the EU VAT rules. Read more about those rules on the European Union page. You can also read our guide to VAT.

When to register for tax collection

See Thresholds to get insights about your potential tax registration obligations in France. 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.

You can read more about registration obligations in France on the European Union page or in our guide to VAT.

Register to collect tax

Different registration schemes could apply to your business, depending on whether you’re based inside or outside the EU. After you’ve decided which registration scheme is correct for your business, learn how to register in France.

• Domestic VAT registration
• One-Stop Shop registration schemes (French content)

After you’ve registered to collect tax in France, 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 France.

Learn more about how to add your registration in the Dashboard.

How we calculate taxes

France applies the EU VAT rules. Learn more about tax calculation in the European Union.

In France, certain territories fall outside the standard tax system and may have different tax rules. Stripe doesn’t calculate tax for customers in the following regions, even if you have a French tax registration. This applies to the following locations:

• French Guyana
• French Polynesia
• Guadalupe
• Martinique
• Mayotte
• New Caledonia
• Reunion
• Saint Barthélemy
• Saint Martin
• Saint Pierre and Miquelon
• Wallis and Futuna

Learn more about how Stripe handles excluded territories.

For the following locations, Stripe Tax calculates French VAT although different local rules might apply:

• Corsica

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.