Enable Stripe Tax for automatic VAT determination, smart or not?
Stripe Tax is strong for digital products and EU B2C. For B2B with VAT-id reverse charge and NL-only sales it adds less and costs per transaction monthly.
Try this first
- 1Inventory your sales flows, how much B2C versus B2B, international versus NL.
- 2Strong EU B2C mix: Stripe Tax sets OSS rates correctly and exports the return data per quarter, big handwork saving.
- 3Mostly NL B2B: without Stripe Tax you handle VAT logic yourself; store the customer VAT id and set the right tax behavior on your products, or apply reverse charge manually per invoice.
- 4Test one month with Stripe Tax on in test mode, verify per-country VAT determination matches your expectation.
- 5Compare Stripe Tax fee per transaction against manual corrections, in our experience it tips around 100 international transactions per month.
When to bring us in
For a Stripe Tax versus manual booking comparison on your volume, we can run the numbers.
See also
- Switching from Exact Online to Yuki, open items and history do not matchPackage migrations stumble on ledger mapping and open AR/AP. Without a mapping table you lose context.
- Twinfield to Exact, dimensions and cost centres go missingTwinfield uses dimensions, Exact uses cost centres and projects. The mapping is not one-to-one.
- Accountant asks for RGS mapping, your ledger does not follow RGSRGS is the Dutch standard chart that SBR filings and accountant software expect. Without mapping, every year-end is manual.
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