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Re: Stripe Tax

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never used stripe, but I do like their design choices.

Also given how extensive their APIs are and even offer in-person payments via a physical terminal, why would one choose Stripe over Square? I am guessing these products mean the % transaction cost is slightly more than what is offered by other payment companies (chase, square, boa)?

Almost seems like a no brainer to choose stripe if you want to scale your small business.

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I was lucky to be part of the beta for my SaaS ( https://turnshift.app ) and I must say this new feature simplifies things A LOT. Especially as a EU business owner, I previously had to sync every VAT tax rate possible, use a complex workflow to know if a customer needed to pay taxes or not, link tax rates to customers, and create taxes reports for my accountant. Stripe tax does all of that automatically, based on the…

So what are the advantages of Paddle?

They support PayPal

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Taxes are bad. Governments absorb wealth. They don't create wealth. No government has ever created wealth.

Didn’t DARPA essentially create the Internet? Lot of wealth has been created here thanks to them.

Not to mention 99% of all medical advancement derives from government-funded research

Re: Stripe Tax

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Taxes are bad. Governments absorb wealth. They don't create wealth. No government has ever created wealth.

Governments don't save, they spend everything they earn and then some. Where exactly do you think all the tax money is going?

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Taxes are bad. Governments absorb wealth. They don't create wealth. No government has ever created wealth.

LOL. I wonder what kind of information diet one would have to construct, and how long one would need to adhere to it, to get oneself to a place where they sincerely believe this.

And even if you somehow DID believe that governments never create wealth, you'd need to have also convinced yourself that they can do no good aside from wealth creation. Or possibly that there IS no good aside from wealth creation.

Regardless of what it is, it is a viewpoint totally divorced from reality.

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Note that if you are just interested in US sales taxes, and only need to collect tax in the ~1/2 of the states that are part of the Streamlines Sales Tax (SST) project, you can have your tax rate calculation, registration, reporting, and filing all done for free . The member states of SST have agreed to pay for those services from several tax SaaS companies. (There is one catch: to avail yourself of this, you must co…

Based on my personal experience I would recommend staying away from TaxCloud. When they make mistakes filing for you (and they have) the states will come to you directly with scary letters, TaxCloud won't answer your calls or messages. The only way I was able to sort things out was by getting another states small business advocate to help. TaxCloud also has a habit of changing their fees without notice. Currently the…

Thanks for the insight, I hope SST get more adaption.... https://www.streamlinedsalestax.org/.

Re: Stripe Tax

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I was dealing with taxes using Stripe Checkout so far, and to be honest it’s far from perfect. Worth looking around this new feature, but feel like they haven’t done much and are going to take 0.5% of every transaction!

We're always working to improve Stripe Checkout, and very open to your feedback. Feel free to drop me a note at jackerman@stripe.com if you'd like to chat about Checkout!

Re: Stripe Tax

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post #207

Taxes are bad. Governments absorb wealth. They don't create wealth. No government has ever created wealth.

Didn’t DARPA essentially create the Internet? Lot of wealth has been created here thanks to them.

If you compare the results of having a government to chaos, they create a LOT of wealth.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

LOL. I wonder what kind of information diet one would have to construct, and how long one would need to adhere to it, to get oneself to a place where they sincerely believe this.

And even if you somehow DID believe that governments never create wealth, you'd need to have also convinced yourself that they can do no good aside from wealth creation. Or possibly that there IS no good aside from wealth creation. Regardless of what it is, it is a viewpoint totally divorced from reality.

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