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使用 Stripe Tax 自动计算销售税

配置并使用 Stripe Tax，在全球不同司法管辖区自动计算和收取销售税。

使用 Stripe Tax 自动计算销售税 是 CoddyKit 上的免费 Stripe Payments & SaaS Billing Systems 课时。这是第 1 节课，共 4 节。你可以在下方免费阅读本课时的完整内容 — 然后在浏览器中使用内置代码编辑器和全天候 AI 导师进行实践。这是 Stripe Payments & SaaS Billing Systems 学习路径的一部分，你的进度在网页和 CoddyKit 应用中同步。 Stripe Payments & SaaS Billing Systems 课程共包含 4 节课。

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Sales Tax: A Global Challenge

Navigating sales tax rules across different regions can be incredibly complex. Each country, state, or even city can have unique tax rates and regulations.

Different rates: Varies by location and product type.
Compliance: Staying up-to-date with ever-changing laws.
Reporting: Accurate collection and remittance to authorities.

This complexity often requires significant effort and resources for businesses selling online.

Meet Stripe Tax

Stripe Tax is designed to simplify sales tax compliance for your business. It automatically calculates and collects sales tax, VAT, and GST in over 40 countries and all US states.

It helps you:

Determine where to register for tax.
Calculate the correct tax rate for each transaction.
Generate reports for filing.

This means less manual work and fewer compliance worries.

Enabling Stripe Tax

Before using Stripe Tax, you need to enable it in your Stripe Dashboard and configure your business's tax settings.

Here's how:

Go to your Stripe Dashboard.
Navigate to Products > Tax.
Click Get Started and follow the prompts to activate Stripe Tax.
You'll need to specify your business location and where you're registered to collect tax.

This setup is crucial for Stripe to know which taxes to calculate.

Product Tax Codes (PTC)

Stripe Tax uses Product Tax Codes (PTC) to understand what you're selling. These codes help determine the correct tax treatment for specific goods or services.

For example:

txcd_99999999 for a general tangible good.
txcd_20030000 for software.
txcd_10010000 for clothing.

Assigning the correct PTC to your products in Stripe ensures accurate tax calculation based on local regulations.

Setting Tax Behavior

When calculating tax, you need to decide if your prices are inclusive or exclusive of tax. This is known as Tax Behavior.

Inclusive: Tax is already included in the price shown to the customer (e.g., a $10 item always costs $10, and tax is part of that). Common in Europe.
Exclusive: Tax is added on top of the price (e.g., a $10 item costs $10 + tax). Common in the US.

You can set this globally in your Stripe Tax settings or per product/line item.

Providing Customer Location

Accurate tax calculation heavily relies on knowing your customer's location. Stripe Tax uses the customer's billing or shipping address to determine the correct jurisdiction and tax rates.

Always ensure you collect and pass the most precise location data possible to Stripe, such as:

Country
State/Province
Postal Code

Without this information, Stripe Tax cannot accurately determine the applicable taxes.

Stripe Tax with Checkout Sessions

Integrating Stripe Tax with Stripe Checkout is straightforward. When creating a Checkout Session, you simply specify automatic_tax[enabled]=true.

Stripe Tax will then automatically calculate and display taxes to your customer during the checkout process.

{
  "line_items": [
    {
      "price": "price_123",
      "quantity": 1,
      "tax_behavior": "exclusive" 
    }
  ],
  "mode": "payment",
  "success_url": "https://example.com/success",
  "cancel_url": "https://example.com/cancel",
  "customer_details": {
    "address": {
      "country": "US",
      "state": "CA",
      "postal_code": "90210"
    }
  },
  "automatic_tax": {
    "enabled": true
  }
}

Stripe Tax with Payment Intents

For more custom payment flows using the Payment Intents API, you can also enable automatic tax calculation.

When creating or updating a Payment Intent, pass the customer's address and set automatic_tax[enabled]=true. Stripe will then calculate the tax.

{
  "amount": 2000,
  "currency": "usd",
  "automatic_tax": {
    "enabled": true
  },
  "customer": "cus_xyz",
  "shipping": {
    "address": {
      "country": "US",
      "state": "NY",
      "postal_code": "10001"
    },
    "name": "Jane Doe"
  },
  "metadata": {
    "product_tax_code": "txcd_99999999"
  }
}

Monitoring & Reporting Tax

Stripe Tax provides detailed reports to help you understand your tax obligations and simplify filing.

In your Stripe Dashboard:

Go to Reports > Tax.
View summaries of collected taxes by jurisdiction.
Download various reports (e.g., transaction line items, tax collected) to aid in your tax filings.

These tools help ensure you're ready for tax season and compliant with regulations.

Quick Check: Stripe Tax Basics

Which of the following is NOT a primary benefit of using Stripe Tax?

Recap: Automating Tax with Stripe Tax

In this lesson, we explored how Stripe Tax simplifies sales tax management. You learned about:

The complexities of global sales tax.
How to enable and configure Stripe Tax in your dashboard.
Key concepts like Product Tax Codes (PTC) and Tax Behavior.
The importance of customer location for accurate tax calculation.
Integrating Stripe Tax with Checkout Sessions and Payment Intents.
Leveraging Stripe's tax reporting tools.

Stripe Tax helps you stay compliant and reduces the burden of tax calculations.

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