# Tax and broker fee increase to 5% (base) incoming **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [July 29, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/tax-and-broker-fee-increase-to-5-base-incoming/178852 "2019-07-29T13:40:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tipa\_Riot](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/tipa_riot/32/443513_2.png) [@Tipa\_Riot](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Tipa_Riot)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/tax-and-broker-fee-increase-to-5-base-incoming/178852/1 "2019-07-29T13:40:09Z")
> **[r/Eve - \[Game World News\] BREAKING: CONCORD Assembly Passes Tax and Brokerage...](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/cjanzz/game_world_news_breaking_concord_assembly_passes/)** > > 0 votes and 31 comments so far on Reddit The owners of the trading cartel in highsec will like this change. Looks like CCP again helps the big players to secure their dominance. Hint: the more balanced change would have been to divert a minimum broker fee also in citadel trade. But guess what? This would take development effort instead of changing a number in the database. In general everybody in RL economics knows what a high Tobin tax leads to … dry up markets, black markets, people seeking alternatives … anyone has a good channel for arranging big sales contracts? ---
**Author:** ![CCP\_Falcon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ccp_falcon/32/143229_2.png) [@CCP\_Falcon](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/CCP_Falcon)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 7:54am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/tax-and-broker-fee-increase-to-5-base-incoming/178852/2 "2019-07-30T07:54:51Z")
32 posts were merged into an existing topic: [Devblog: Updates to Sales Taxes & Brokers Fees](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/devblog-updates-to-sales-taxes-brokers-fees/178876) ---
**Author:** ![CCP\_Falcon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ccp_falcon/32/143229_2.png) [@CCP\_Falcon](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/CCP_Falcon)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 7:54am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/tax-and-broker-fee-increase-to-5-base-incoming/178852/3 "2019-07-30T07:54:51Z")