[dinkblam]

not sure i can agree about being feature-complete. they have "some help with taxation calculation" but won't help you with filing and remitting VAT for all those weird countries that require you to collect, file and remit VAT even if you just sell a single license for 4 USD to their country (^). a small company can't register with 40 VAT offices all around the world. Paddle solves the issue by collecting VAT, but using Paddle is the best way to bankruptcy. We now use FastSpring for all countries that require VAT collection.

[^] concerns at least these countries as well as all EU countries. possibly a lot more if you breach the minimum-thresholds: AE, AL, AO, BH, BY, CL, CO, CR, DZ, EC, IN, KE, KR, MD, MX, RS, RU, SA, UG, VN, CH, TJ, GE

[eerikkivistik]

Yeah, so from what I can tell, with the addition of Stripe App Marketplace, we have some addons that can handle the VAT issue. But I have not tested them yet. As for filing the taxes, you still mostly have to do that with your local government tax agency, but any sales below 40k€/year should not require having any branches in other EU countries

[dinkblam]

you cannot file VAT for foreign countries with your "your local government tax agency". you need to talk to foreign governments in weird languages. even registering with them can be a year-long nightmare. thats why i said its "impossible" for small companies.

[eerikkivistik]

Maybe we are talking about different things. Up to an amount you can do this: https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/taxation/vat/vat-digit...