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A TaxJar Alternative for Global Software Sellers
TaxJar is a good tool if you run a physical e-commerce store in the United States and want your state returns filed for you. Filing is the half of this problem TaxesRadar deliberately does not do, so for a seller who genuinely needs returns submitted, none of what follows is an argument to cancel.
What changed is the price. TaxJar's published Starter plan is now 39 USD a month and Professional is 99 USD, with AutoFile at 50 USD a filing on Starter and 55 USD on Professional. Those four figures are read from TaxJar's own pricing page and support article, both linked at the foot of this page with the date they were read.
So the question worth asking is not which tool is better. It is which half you are actually paying for. If TaxJar files your returns, keep it. If you were paying it mainly to be told where you stand, that is the half this product does, for 12 USD a month, less than a third of TaxJar's Starter price, across the EU, UK, Canada and Australia as well as the US states.
What is a TaxJar alternative?
A TaxJar alternative is a tool that tracks sales-tax and VAT registration obligations beyond the United States. TaxJar is built around US economic nexus and automated state filing; an alternative covers EU VAT, UK VAT and Canadian GST alongside US states, and alerts you before each threshold is crossed.
| TaxesRadar | TaxJar | |
|---|---|---|
| US economic-nexus tracking, every sales-tax state | ✓ | ✓ |
| EU VAT OSS as a single €10,000 bloc | ✓ | No (US-focused) |
| UK, Canada and Australia thresholds | ✓ | No |
| Countries with no threshold at all (India, Türkiye, UAE) | ✓ | No |
| Total jurisdictions watched | 76 | US states only |
| Connects to Stripe and Paddle | Read-only key, no code | Requires integrations |
| Shopify sales | ✓ | ✓ |
| CSV import for PayPal, invoices, marketplaces | ✓ | Limited |
| Sources added together, not chosen between | ✓ | One source at a time |
| Knows which sales a marketplace or MoR already paid the tax on | ✓ | No |
| Overlapping sources handled | Duplicate CSV rows removed; overlapping connectors flagged, not merged | No |
| Alert before crossing, not only after | At 75% and on crossing | Partial |
| Forecast of when each threshold lands | ✓ | No |
| Registration pack: authority, form, deadline | ✓ | Filing service instead |
| Files your returns automatically | No (we hand you the pack) | Yes (for an extra fee) |
| Check your exposure without an account | Free threshold check, nothing uploaded | No |
| Entry plan | 12 USD a month, or 120 USD a year | 39 USD a month, from 419 USD a year |
| Next plan up | None, there is one product | 99 USD a month, from 1,069 USD a year |
| Cost per return filed | Nothing to pay us, because we do not file | 50 USD a filing on Starter, 55 USD on Professional |
| Cost of watching 10 states for a year | 120 USD, whether you cross none of them or all ten | 419 USD before a single return is filed |
The honest verdict
If you only sell physical goods to US customers and want a tool to automatically file your state returns, TaxJar still does something this product does not, and the price rise does not change that. Where it is worth reconsidering is if you were paying for the watching rather than the filing, or if your sales left the US somewhere along the way. Those are the two cases where a US filing suite is being bought for a job it was never the cheapest way to do.
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FAQ
Is there a free TaxJar alternative?
The threshold check on this site is free and needs no account: drop in a sales CSV and it tells you which jurisdictions you have already crossed and which you are approaching. It runs entirely in your browser, so the file is never uploaded. TaxJar has no free tier beyond a trial.
Does TaxesRadar cover more than US sales tax?
Yes. TaxJar is built around US economic nexus. TaxesRadar watches 76 jurisdictions: 48 in the US, being the 45 states with a sales tax, Alaska's local regime, Washington DC and Puerto Rico. Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon levy no sales tax, so a remote seller never registers there. Beyond the US it watches the EU as a single VAT OSS bloc, the UK, Canada, Australia, and the countries that give foreign sellers no threshold at all, where registration is due from the first sale.
Does TaxesRadar file returns for me?
No, and that is deliberate. TaxesRadar solves the part that is genuinely hard to see: knowing when and where registration becomes due. When you cross, you get the pack - the authority, the form, the deadline and your own details ready to paste. Filing stays with your accountant, which is where the liability belongs.
Why does the number differ from what my payment processor reports?
Because a processor only sees its own sales, and because not every sale counts the same way. TaxesRadar reads every source and sorts the sales by who was the seller. Sales you made yourself count everywhere. Sales through a marketplace like Amazon leave you as the seller, so about half the US states count them toward your own threshold and the other half do not, while the EU and UK never do, because their deemed-supplier rules make the platform the supplier. Sales through a merchant of record like Paddle count toward no threshold anywhere: Paddle bought from you and resold to the customer, so the sale into their country was Paddle's, not yours. Adding everything into one pile would tell a Paddle seller to register for VAT that Paddle already handles, and for US states they have never sold into directly.
I already use TaxJar for US filing. Is this a replacement?
Not necessarily. If TaxJar files your US state returns and you are happy with that, keep it. What it cannot tell you is when you are about to owe registration in Germany or the UK. The two can run side by side: TaxJar for US filing, TaxesRadar as the radar over everywhere else.
What happens if I cross a threshold without noticing?
Registration is backdated to the day you crossed, not the day you registered. You owe the tax you should have charged on every sale since, plus interest and in most jurisdictions a penalty. That gap between crossing and noticing is the whole reason to be warned in advance rather than audited in arrears.
How much does TaxJar cost in 2026?
TaxJar publishes Starter at 39 USD a month, from 419 USD a year, and Professional at 99 USD a month, from 1,069 USD a year, with both scaling by order volume above those floors. AutoFile is charged separately at 50 USD a filing on Starter and 55 USD on Professional. All four figures are read from TaxJar's own pricing page and support article, linked below with the date they were read.
Did TaxJar raise its prices, and when does it hit me?
The published figures above are higher than the ones TaxJar carried through 2025, when Starter was 19 USD a month and AutoFile was 30 to 35 USD a filing. TaxJar has not published an announcement of the change, so we will not state an effective date as though it had: what is reported by several third-party write-ups, and not by TaxJar, is that existing month-to-month customers keep legacy pricing until 1 October 2026. If you are on TaxJar today, the reliable source for your own date is the renewal notice in your inbox, not this page.
Is TaxesRadar cheaper than TaxJar?
Yes, and it should be, because it does less. 120 USD a year against 419 USD is not a like-for-like saving: TaxJar files returns and this does not. The comparison worth making is against the part of TaxJar you use. If you have not enrolled a single state in AutoFile, you are paying a filing suite's price to be told where you stand, and that is the job this product is built for.
Read further
- Every threshold, with its official sourceThe figure, what it measures, the window it is measured over, and the authority that publishes it. No account, no email.
- TaxJar raised its prices. Work out which half you were paying forTaxJar now publishes 39 USD a month for Starter and 50 to 55 USD a filing. Here is how to work out whether you were paying for filing or for watching.
- We counted the wrong sales in 42 statesOur engine measured US economic nexus on taxable sales in every state. Only six do. The error, the fix, and how to tell which one applies to you.
- The countries where your first sale is the registrationFourteen countries apply no VAT registration threshold to foreign sellers: the duty starts at sale one. Where they are, and who the published figure belongs to.
- Whose sale was it? Merchant of record versus marketplace facilitatorA merchant of record sale counts toward no threshold anywhere. A marketplace sale leaves you the seller, and most US states still count it toward your own line.
- California starts taxing SaaS on 1 January 2027California SaaS sales tax starts 1 January 2027 under SB 122. Two things change at once: software becomes taxable, and it starts counting toward $500,000.
- The UK VAT registration threshold for overseas sellersThe UK VAT registration threshold is £90,000 - but only for businesses established in the UK. If yours is not, there is no threshold. Here is the real test.
- US economic nexus: what actually triggers it, state by stateThe $100,000-or-200-transactions rule describes 17 of 48 US jurisdictions. Which test your states really apply, the window they measure over, and what counts.
- EU OSS registration vs US sales tax nexusEU OSS registration and US economic nexus solve the same problem in opposite ways. Here is how each threshold works and what a global seller has to watch.
- What is the GST threshold for small businesses in Canada?The Canadian GST threshold is C$30,000 over four consecutive quarters. Here is what counts toward it, when non-resident sellers must register, and the traps.
Where these claims come from
Everything asserted above about TaxJar is read from their own documentation, last checked 2026-08-12. If one of these is out of date, tell us and it gets corrected.
Comparison reflects our understanding as of 2026 and TaxesRadar's own positioning; verify current competitor features and pricing on their sites. TaxJar is a trademark of its owner.