Tax rates on invoices

Assign tax rates to draft invoices to have Stripe calculate tax amounts for you.

You can assign tax rates:

On individual invoice-items (recommended).
On the entire invoice’s subtotal.

You need to create tax rates before you can use them on invoices. See creating tax rates for instructions.

Recommended: Setting tax rates on individual items

If creating an invoice through the Dashboard, assign tax rates to individual line items. When modifying or creating invoice line items through the API, set the invoice item’s tax_rates:

Terminal

curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/invoiceitems/ii_CWYWo9Ham19N4a \
  -u sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc
: \
  -d "tax_rates[0]"="txr_1EO66sClCIKljWvs98IiVfHW" \
  -d "tax_rates[1]"="txr_1EEOvcClCIKljWvsqYb9U0MB"

You can add as many as five tax rates to each line item.

For type subscription or invoiceitem, use the line item id. For type=invoiceitem, you can also use the value of invoice_item.

Setting default tax rates for the entire invoice

If you sell one type of product, or have simple tax needs, you can set a default tax rate on the invoice. Default tax rates apply to all line items on the invoice. For more complex use cases, you can also set an item level tax rate that overrides the default tax rate.

If creating an invoice through the Dashboard, assign default tax rates to apply to the invoice.

Set the invoice’s default tax rates through the API:

Terminal

curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/invoices/in_18jwqyLlRB0eXbMtrUQ97YBw \
  -u sk_test_4eC39HqLyjWDarjtT1zdp7dc
: \
  -d "default_tax_rates[0]"="txr_1EO66sClCIKljWvs98IiVfHW" \
  -d "default_tax_rates[1]"="txr_1EEOvcClCIKljWvsqYb9U0MB"

You can add as many as five default tax rates to each invoice.