# Tax for Software Platforms

Stripe Tax enables businesses to calculate, collect, and report indirect taxes in over 100 countries, across hundreds of product categories. As a platform, you can use Stripe Tax to offer pre-integrated tax compliance to your connected accounts.

Use this guide if your connected accounts are responsible for collecting, filing, and reporting taxes.

## Set up your connected accounts for tax

As a platform, you must make sure that a connected account has their tax settings and registrations set up before enabling tax calculations. This can be achieved by:

*   Connected account using the Stripe Dashboard
*   Creating a tax interface within your platform
*   Using Connect embedded components within your platform

Your platform must then check whether connected accounts have configured Stripe Tax to enable tax calculations.

**Note:** Sign in to check if your connected accounts are ready to use Stripe Tax.

On the **Connected accounts** page in your Dashboard, you can filter the list on accounts that are ready to use Stripe Tax. You can also export those accounts with the following Stripe Tax-related columns:

*   **Tax Settings Status**: the value `active` indicates that the account