Super Fun SaaS Sales Tax (Part Deux)

This podcast is hosted by transistor dot f m. Hey, everyone. Welcome to Build Your SaaS. This is the behind the scenes story of building a web app in 2023. I'm John Buda, a software engineer. And I'm Justin Jackson. I do sales tax compliance for SaaS companies. Follow along as we figure this shit out. Did you get a promotion? That's a I don't know if that's a promotion. Although, judging from the number of unsolicited DMs and emails from sales tax compliance professionals since our last episode Yeah. That I've received, it seems lucrative. Are you gonna are you gonna switch to becoming a sales tax lobbyist? I mean, I may I may do that. I may just become a a lobbyist. I don't can you become an international lobbyist? That sounds exhausting. I don't think so. That would almost be worse than sales tax compliance. I would have to register as a lobbyist in every jurisdiction in the world. And you would. Well, folks, that last episode hit a nerve. We talked about sales tax compliance, and we got a lot of responses from all sorts of folks. And, there's a few different camps I think we've noticed. Broadly, I would say folks in North America who are using Stripe and already have customers and subscriptions and for whom, digital sales tax compliance is new are like, agree with us. This is difficult. This is ridiculous. This is why why is it built why is it this way? I didn't even realize we needed to do this. And then a lot of folks in the EU were, not as empathetic. They're just saying, well, this is just a normal part of business. And, that was, I think that's pretty indicative of the response we got. What do you think, John? I think that I mean, I yeah. It is a normal part of running a business, but I think in The US, it's people are just less aware of it. I mean, it's maybe harder to do as well, but it's just like, I don't know, people are unaware or think it's something they just need to do later. I'm I'm actually having a discussion right at the same point with Adam Wavin. Let's just let's just let's just talk about some of the responses we got here. Yep. So, one anonymous European whom I won't credit said, once again, I noticed that the indie hacking community has a somewhat naive approach to what running a business actually entails. As a European, not having a plan for sales tax is mind boggling. To which, Cooper replied, who is also from the EU, I think it might be a European perspective as we have been dealing with that from day one. So it's just one of the perks parts of running a business from the start. It can't really be neglected in the EU. Although, I just wanna take a quick aside here and say, you know, I …