# Sales Tax 7.5 Percent Assault **URL:** \ **Category:** Science & Industry\ **Created:** [March 12, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/sales-tax-7-5-percent-assault/479278 "2025-03-12T14:27:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tarax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/tarax/32/420205_2.png) [@Tarax](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Tarax)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 2:27pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/sales-tax-7-5-percent-assault/479278/1 "2025-03-12T14:27:12Z")
Just one question: WHY ? From 4% to 7.5% just like that? This feels like an assault on all industrialists in the game. ---
**Author:** ![babunanu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/babunanu/32/453303_2.png) [@babunanu](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/babunanu)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/sales-tax-7-5-percent-assault/479278/2 "2025-03-12T17:04:05Z")
I guess they want prices to go up, small guys to stop bothering while the multi-trillion guys clean up. The jump is pretty crazy - nearly doubled. I’m a ‘old’ returner and seems like I missed the messing about of tax rates. _In the past five years, the sales tax rate has been adjusted multiple times: from 2% to 5%, then down to 2.5%, up to 8%, reduced to 4.5% in mid-2024, and now back up from 4% to 7.5%._ If a central bank operated like that, everyone would think it was mental! ---
**Author:** ![Moko\_Musana](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/moko_musana/32/373694_2.png) [@Moko\_Musana](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Moko_Musana)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/sales-tax-7-5-percent-assault/479278/3 "2025-03-12T17:32:45Z")
That only affects trades done via the ingame market interface. If you use contracts in game or implement a market outside of the game, you can completely bypass the tax. Everything about industry is about using third party tools. Why should trading be different? ---
**Author:** ![Dyver\_Phycad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/dyver_phycad/32/358575_2.png) [@Dyver\_Phycad](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Dyver_Phycad)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/sales-tax-7-5-percent-assault/479278/4 "2025-03-12T19:25:08Z")
CCP is going the US way of dealing with valued trade partners. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Malak\_Starfire](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/malak_starfire/32/501915_2.png) [@Malak\_Starfire](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Malak_Starfire)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/sales-tax-7-5-percent-assault/479278/5 "2025-03-12T23:14:41Z")
Last year sales tax was decreased from 8% to 4% in July. They are undoing that change as they were unhappy with the results. Sales tax is one of the largest ISK sinks in the game. As others have stated though, you can get around it. ---
**Author:** ![Lara\_Agnon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/lara_agnon/32/377122_2.png) [@Lara\_Agnon](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Lara_Agnon)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 7:31am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/sales-tax-7-5-percent-assault/479278/6 "2025-03-13T07:31:05Z")
> [@Malak\_Starfire](#): > > They are undoing that change as they were unhappy with the results …being me resuming to trade again. but well, i’ll stop ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 7:31am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/sales-tax-7-5-percent-assault/479278/7 "2025-06-11T07:31:45Z")
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