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>I naively thought that the likes of Stripe existed in order to abstract away this issue. This is the least of your worries when selling globally. VAT is where
by chmod775 5y ago
>I naively thought that the likes of Stripe existed in order to abstract away this issue.
This is the least of your worries when selling globally. VAT is where the real fun starts.
- alibarber 5y agoOh I’m well aware. And recent changed within the EU itself have not made things easier… [even selling within the EU, you must now charge VAT for the product in question at the destination country, not the local rate, and with zero threshold]
- CodesInChaos 5y agoAt least one applicable VAT rate for each of the 27 EU countries is simple enough to implement yourself. The US has a mess of thousands of jurisdictions with their own taxes, where it's difficult to even tell in which jurisdiction an address falls, so you're pretty much forced to use a service like Avalara.