Apparently Stripe's acquisition of TaxJar is meant to expand their offerings in sales tax compliance.
From the article:
As the latest addition to Stripe’s revenue platform, TaxJar will help businesses automate tasks such as:
- Providing accurate sales tax rates at checkout, tied to the exact street address of the customer.
- Automatically submitting tax returns to local jurisdictions and remitting the sales tax collected.
- Producing local jurisdiction reports to show sales and sales tax collected—not only for each state, but for relevant counties, cities, and other special jurisdictions.
- Evaluating a company’s products and intelligently suggesting the right product tax code.
Feel you on taxes = party pooper... but yes, Stripe can help handle sales tax: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/taxes. Much more on that front (VAT, Tax ID collection) coming very soon.