[a2128]

This looks cool, but I'm curious about how taxes work with this setup. From my understanding, Gumroad handles sales tax for you in a number of countries (US and EU at least). Does Easyful do something similar, or is that left up to the user to go through that headache on their own?

[rmbyrro]

If you're an individual digital creator in, say, South Africa, why would you worry about paying taxes in Norway for $500 that came from customers there?

I mean, big, established companies are a big target. But it doesn't seem that the Norway Revenue Service would spend time finding who's Joe from South Africa who sold a $50 ebook to 10 Norwegians...

[XCSme]

"Why not just do tax fraud?"

[jhartist]

Stripe actually handles taxes for you with Payment Links, and Easyful is just a fulfillment layer on top of that.

Check out the Stripe docs page about it: https://stripe.com/docs/tax/paymentlinks

[wahnfrieden]

Stripe does not act as Merchant of Record. So it is not directly comparable to Gumroad, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle.

[a2128]

That's the term/information I was looking for. Thank you

[tansan]

Could you share the implication this?

[coder543]

I’m not an accountant, but I think the distinction is that the MoR will handle both the collection and remittance of tax for you, including filing any necessary paperwork. You get money deposited in your bank account, and you deliver product to customers, but you’re not worried about remitting taxes.

If Stripe collects the tax and sets it aside, that’s helpful, but it still means you have to figure out which jurisdictions you owe tax to, and figure out how to get the taxes delivered and reported to those jurisdictions (“remitted”), which can be a headache, to say the least.