GST and global tax software for Razorpay

Yes, on India invoices, once you give it a GSTIN. Razorpay's docs are explicit that if GSTIN is not provided before creating an invoice, the option to display a tax rate per HSN or SAC code is not available. With it in place you pick a tax rate per line item, enter a 6 to 8 character HSN or 2 to 6 character SAC code, add cess, and mark the rate tax inclusive or tax exclusive. Place of supply is mandatory and auto-populates from the shipping address. Where that state differs from the billing address the tax computes as IGST, otherwise it splits into CGST and SGST. That is real GST invoicing. It stops at the border.

Nothing does. Razorpay states you can create non-GST invoices in any of its supported international currencies, and that you cannot add tax rates for invoices created using international currencies. The invoice goes out with no tax line at all. That is a problem because selling into the US from a foreign entity still creates US sales tax obligations once you cross economic nexus thresholds, and those pre-incorporation sales can create affiliate nexus exposure that carries over to a US entity once it is formed. Commenda calculates the tax on the transaction, registers you in the states where you are exposed, and files there. We also run a back-period exposure analysis against the Indian entity's data before a US launch.

Not for your invoices. What its docs describe is the invoice Razorpay sends you. From 1 January 2021 its B2B invoices to merchants carry an IRN and a QR code, and its announcement notes that if you have not updated your GSTIN you receive a B2C invoice, which does not need to be registered on the IRP. Nothing in Razorpay Invoices documents generating an IRN on the invoices you raise. Commenda is straight about its own position here too. Where e-invoicing is mandatory, such as Brazil, we support the indirect tax filings as a service and advise on a defensible position. Fully automated, government-validated e-invoicing with automated delivery to your customer is on our roadmap. It has not shipped.

No, and conflating the two is a common mistake. TDS is income tax withheld at source on a payment you make. GST is an indirect tax on the supply itself. RazorpayX Payroll deducts TDS from salaries and files Form 24Q automatically, on a setting its docs say is usually enabled by default, and it also makes PF, ESI and PT payments and files those returns before the 15th of the following month. It states it does not file nil TDS returns or TDS correction filings, and it does not do the company registrations for those schemes. None of that is a GST return, and none of it touches US sales tax or EU VAT.

No, and its documentation gives no basis for thinking so. Razorpay settles the amount you charged. The GST that appears on Razorpay's own invoice is the 18% GST on its platform fee, which its billing docs describe as collected by the government. That is tax on the service it sold you, not tax on the sale you made. The general test holds for any platform: you would see tax as a line item on the platform's invoices or settlement reports. If it is absent, the platform is not collecting, and the liability is yours. We review the reporting to confirm rather than assume.

One can, for B2C. The EU One-Stop Shop lets you register for VAT in a single member state and use that registration to file for cross-border B2C sales across all 27 EU countries plus Northern Ireland, instead of registering in each one. For non-EU sellers, and an Indian company is a non-EU seller, we often recommend the Netherlands or Ireland as the OSS state for filing simplicity. OSS does not cover Norway, Switzerland or Iceland, which need separate VAT registrations. The UK is separate post-Brexit with its own Making Tax Digital regime, and returns there must be submitted through compatible software.