Managing tax compliance across multiple countries gets complicated fast.
As platforms expand and onboard contractors, merchants, creators, and other recipients from across the globe, they often find themselves juggling separate onboarding flows, duplicated recipient records, fragmented payment data, and disconnected reporting workflows just to stay compliant in different jurisdictions.
That complexity adds operational overhead and compliance risk for finance and operations teams while creating unnecessary friction for recipients.
That’s why we’re introducing multi-jurisdiction tax reporting — a major update to Trolley Tax that allows merchants to manage end-of-year reporting in multiple supported countries from a single Trolley account.
What we cover
One onboarding flow for global tax reporting
Historically, merchants operating in multiple countries needed to manage separate sub-merchant accounts for each jurisdiction to separate the tax reporting aspects of each.
That meant:
- Duplicating recipient records
- Copying payment data between accounts
- Managing multiple onboarding experiences
- Increasing the risk of inconsistent or diverging data
For recipients, the experience could feel repetitive and fragmented. They often needed to complete onboarding multiple times across different tax reporting flows, even when working with the same platform.
Multi-jurisdiction tax reporting changes that model entirely.
With this update, merchants onboard recipients once, manage payouts from a single account, and use the same recipient and payment data to support reporting across multiple supported tax jurisdictions.
The intention is to provide a cleaner experience for both merchants and recipients while significantly reducing the administrative overhead behind the scenes.
Today, Trolley supports tax reporting across several major global jurisdictions and frameworks through a single reporting infrastructure. In the US, merchants can manage IRS Form 1099 and Form 1042-S reporting, as well as state-level equivalents through the Combined Federal/State Filing (CF/SF) Program. Trolley also supports DAC7 reporting requirements for digital platforms in the EU, as well as OECD Reporting Rules for Digital Platforms in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.
Simplify compliance as you scale globally
Tax compliance tends to become more operationally difficult as businesses expand into new regions.
Each new jurisdiction introduces additional onboarding requirements, reporting workflows, and operational coordination between finance and operations teams.
Multi-jurisdiction tax reporting helps simplify that expansion.
Instead of rebuilding workflows every time a new reporting requirement emerges, merchants can simply enable additional supported tax regions directly within their existing Trolley environment with the click of a button.
There’s no extra work: Recipients are already onboarded. Payment records already exist. Core compliance workflows are already in place. At the end of the year, Trolley produces the correct reporting documents required for each enabled jurisdiction.
For finance and AP teams, this reduces the amount of manual coordination required during tax season. For operations teams, it creates a smoother recipient experience with less onboarding friction and fewer support requests.
A better experience for recipients and internal teams
Global compliance workflows shouldn’t come at the expense of recipient experience.
Repeated onboarding requests, duplicated tax collection flows, and fragmented communication create unnecessary friction that can reduce completion rates and increase support burden for platform teams.
By consolidating onboarding, payout management, and reporting workflows into a single account structure, multi-jurisdiction tax reporting helps reduce the load on recipients considerably.
They complete onboarding once. Platforms maintain a cleaner source of truth. Internal teams spend less time reconciling duplicated data across disconnected systems.
That operational simplicity becomes increasingly valuable as platforms scale globally and reporting requirements continue expanding across regions.
Built for the future of global tax compliance
Global tax reporting requirements are only becoming more complex.
As platforms expand internationally, businesses need compliance infrastructure that can adapt quickly as filing requirements evolve across regions.
That evolution isn’t limited to international reporting. Trolley is also expanding its US tax capabilities with support for the IRS transition from FIRE to IRIS and Combined Federal/State Filing.
We’re building the infrastructure to help platforms stay compliant globally without adding unnecessary complexity.
