“Stripe , the privately-held payments company now valued at $95 billion , has made an acquisition to expand the range of tools (and services) that it provides to online businesses. It has acquired TaxJar , a popular provider of a cloud-based suite of tax services, which can be used to automatically calculate, report and file sales taxes. One key point about TaxJar is that it works across a number of geographies and the many different sales tax regimes that each uses — a complex area for a lot of companies that do business online.”