> Why can't the creators handle their own tax? If you're accepting payments from the EU within the EU, you have to collect evidence of where the payer is from,

> Why can't the creators handle their own tax? If you're accepting payments from the EU within the EU, you have to collect evidence of where the payer is from, pay different VAT amounts (i.e. different percentages per country) and have VAT paper work to prepare every year. It's time consuming, you're likely to make mistakes and that's only for the EU. For what it's worth, I use https://paddle.com/ https://paddle.com/ for a paid Chrome extension who deal with country specific tax for me. They're more expensive than Stripe though.