When we implemented Stripe, our team was flatly frustrated that this wasn't already included in Stripe. It spawned a lot of arguments as to why we were even usi

When we implemented Stripe, our team was flatly frustrated that this wasn't already included in Stripe. It spawned a lot of arguments as to why we were even using Stripe over just a normal payment gateway. Having to calculate sales tax was a much harder problem for us than what Stripe was solving. Although paying .5% on every transaction just to do a lookup on a table of what should be public information is still frankly absurd. For all of the lip service given to ease of doing business, governments still enable a lot of rent seeking in the process.