Sales tax and VAT software for Stripe

Sometimes, and it tends to over-warn. Stripe's monitoring documentation lists the assumptions behind those alerts. It assumes every sale carries your preset product tax code and is taxable at the destination, and it states that it cannot differentiate retail from wholesale sales, or marketplace from non-marketplace sales. So a state where most of your revenue is resale or exempt can still trip an alert. It also cannot see your physical footprint or revenue living in other systems, which is how it misses nexus in the other direction. We have had customers arrive worried about a Stripe Tax alert that turned out to be false once we ran a real exposure analysis, including one for a country where no obligation existed at all. Commenda runs that analysis against your actual product taxability, your physical presence, and every revenue system you use.

In the US, yes. Stripe files US returns from the Dashboard through TaxJar, which Stripe owns, and prepares them each period. Outside the US it is a partner arrangement: Taxually for global filing, Marosa for VAT across 27 EU and European countries, and Hands-off Sales Tax for the US and Canada. Stripe's own documentation notes that pricing varies by partner and filing location, that its Tax Complete plan includes a set number of filing credits toward TaxJar and Taxually, and that Marosa and Hands-off Sales Tax are priced separately. A filing outside the US carries an extra fee on top of your tier and still consumes one of your included filings. Commenda files across all 50 states and 70+ countries itself, on each jurisdiction's required frequency, with amendments where a period needs correcting.

In some places. Stripe's documentation is specific: for US locations where you are a remote seller, you can start a registration with Stripe. In all other locations, including any US state where you have physical presence such as employees or a warehouse, you register through a Taxually account. Registrations outside the US cost 150 USD on top of your subscription tier and still count against the registrations the tier includes, and some cost far more, with Colombia listed at 1,050 USD. Coming off a registration needs care too. Stripe notes that expiring one stops tax collection but does not deregister you with the authority, and that expiry is permanent. Commenda handles registrations in all 50 states, EU VAT including OSS and IOSS, and GST across APAC and Canada, and deregisters you where you no longer trade.

After you have crossed. Stripe states that it sends notifications after you hit a threshold in a location, and only once your business reaches 10,000 USD in yearly revenue. The email names the locations generating over 5% of your revenue where you are not registered, and gives a count rather than a list for everything below that. New transactions also take up to seven days to appear in your threshold figures. By the time the alert lands you may already owe tax on sales you never collected it on, which is the gap a voluntary disclosure agreement exists to close. Commenda notifies you at 80% of a registration threshold, before you cross, so the registration can go in while you are still under it.

Partly. Stripe's supported countries table lists 104 locations, and 42 of them accept any product tax code. In the other 62 Stripe Tax supports digital products only, and states that it does not calculate tax for any product not using a digital product tax code. There are also excluded territories, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and the Åland Islands among them, where Stripe does not calculate tax even if you are registered in the parent country, and its guidance there is to set up manual rules as a fallback. Commenda covers goods and services across 70+ countries, including EU VAT with OSS and IOSS for distance selling.