Tax Rate in new Stripe Checkout

Question

I've implemented the new Stripe Checkout on my NodeJS server, but I cannot specify the Tax Rate for Invoicing.

As per my understanding Tax Rates should be specified in the Payment Intent API. Fact is that the new Checkout automatically creates a Payment Intent via its CreateSession (see payment_intent_data), but I'm not able to insert a Tax Rate upon its creation.

How can this be done? What I want to achieve is to have the user know the Tax % both in the Checkout UI and in the final email invoice.

This is my code:

return stripe.checkout.sessions.create({     payment_method_types: [paymentMethod],     line_items: [{         name: name,         description: description,         images: [imageUrl],         amount: amount,         currency: currency,         quantity: 1     }],     success_url: successUrl,     cancel_url: cancelUrl,     customer: stripeId,     payment_intent_data: {         receipt_email: email,         metadata: {             userId: userId,             amount: amount,             currency: currency,             ref: ref,             stripeId: stripeId,             details: details         }     } }).then(session => {     return res.send(session) 

Answer 1

At the time of this answer, Stripe Checkout does not support Tax Rates.

One alternative is to collect payment details using "setup" mode Checkout [1], then create a PaymentIntent [2] from your server with the PaymentMethod collected in Checkout and the Tax Rate you'd like to use.

[1] https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/collecting

[2] https://stripe.com/docs/api/payment_intents/create