Stripe automatic tax in Checkout fails when neither the customer nor the session has an address
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:52:48.004Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:52:48.004Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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Enabling automatic_tax makes Checkout compute tax with Stripe Tax, which needs a customer location. Checkout collects a billing address automatically when automatic tax is on, but passing an existing customer that has no address fails at session creation with an invalid_request_error saying the customer's address is required. The fix is to set customer_update with address set to auto, which permits Checkout to write the collected address back onto the Customer.
Automatic tax also requires an origin address and at least one active tax registration configured in the dashboard; without a registration for the buyer's jurisdiction, tax computes as zero rather than raising an error. Confirm by creating a session for an address-less customer, then verify a non-zero total_details.amount_tax in test mode before shipping.
Source: https://docs.stripe.com/tax/checkout
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