Automatically collect tax on Payment Links
Learn how to calculate and collect tax on a payment page without writing any code.
Note
Log in or sign up for Stripe to enable Stripe Tax.
You can use Stripe Tax with Payment Links to automatically calculate and collect tax on a payment page and share a link to it with your customers, without writing any code.
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Stripe only calculates tax in jurisdictions where you have an active tax registration. Without a registration in the customer’s location, the calculation returns zero tax. To learn more, see Understand zero tax amounts.
Transfer tax liability to Stripe
If you sell digital products, Managed Payments allows you to offload tax liability to Stripe so we’re directly responsible for handling sales tax, VAT, or GST globally. As a merchant of record solution, Managed Payments also handles fraud prevention, dispute management, and customer support on all transactions.
Before you start, confirm that your Stripe Tax settings are complete.
To create a payment link in the Dashboard:
- Open the Payment Links page.
- Click + New .
- Fill out the details.
- Enable Collect tax automatically .
To update an existing payment link in the Dashboard:
- Open the Payment Links page.
- Select the payment link you want to update.
- On the payment link details page, click the overflow menu ( ), then click Edit .
- In the payment link editor, select Collect tax automatically to enable automatic tax collection on this payment link.
- (Optional) Select Collect customers’ addresses to improve tax calculation accuracy. The more information you provide, the more precise the calculation.
- Click Update link to save your changes.