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Broker Fee and Tax Rates: How low can you go?
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Tzar Sinak
Mythic Heights
#1 - 2015-03-19 00:49:59 UTC
According to my wallet my broker fee and tax rate is 0.75% each. My broker relations and accounting skills are at 5. My faction standing with the station I trade in is 8.19. Can I get lower than 0.75%?

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Sable Moran
Moran Light Industries
#2 - 2015-03-19 08:53:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Sable Moran
0,24% is the lowest I get, so yes there's something that you can still do.

Did you know that besides faction standings also your corporation standings affect the fee? Specifically your personal standings towards the station owning corporation.

EDIT:

This might be useful: http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/Thoraemond/eve-market-order-broker-fees-20110417.png

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Bagatur I
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#3 - 2015-03-19 15:05:23 UTC
Tzar Sinak wrote:
According to my wallet my broker fee and tax rate is 0.75% each. My broker relations and accounting skills are at 5. My faction standing with the station I trade in is 8.19. Can I get lower than 0.75%?


0.75% broker fee only takes into account your skills, as the actual broker fee depends on the station you trade in. once you try to sell or buy something, you will the actual broker fee for that station.
having perfect faction and corp standings can lower your broker fee up to a fourth of what you get after skills.
Tzar Sinak
Mythic Heights
#4 - 2015-03-19 20:09:40 UTC
Thanks for the replies and the excellent link.

So skills are at 5
Station owner standing is 8.19
The faction that the station owner belongs to is 4.53

The formula says faction standing and corporation standing. Based on responses the station owner is the faction standing and the corporation standing is the standing of MY corporation to the station owner.

If this is correct then my corporation standing is based on the average of the member standings to the station owner (faction).

I have 6 corp members. 3 have standings and 3 have no standings (0.0?). To improve my broker rate I need to leave the corp?

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Elena Thiesant
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2015-03-20 07:16:30 UTC
Tzar Sinak wrote:
Based on responses the station owner is the faction standing and the corporation standing is the standing of MY corporation to the station owner.


No.

Your standing to the NPC corp that owns the station.
Your standing to the faction which the corp that owns the station belongs to.

Eg: Jita 4-4 is owned by the Caldari Navy. Your standing to the NPC corp 'Caldari Navy' counts.
Caldari Navy is part of the faction Caldari State. Your standing to the faction 'Caldari State' counts.
Tzar Sinak
Mythic Heights
#6 - 2015-03-20 13:33:18 UTC  |  Edited by: Tzar Sinak
Excellent. Thanks.

Just tried an experiment:

I left my corp to see the effect on broker tax from various stations in different regions.

"Home" station went up to the single digits.
I went to a popular trade hub and my rate was in the triple digits (642.something% !!!)

I went "home" and rejoined my corp and something interesting happened...

I found that different items I sell have different broker rates. Remember when I started I was getting a 0.75% broker tax for everything. There is now a range of rates from 0.4% to as high as 1675.04% for items that would have been 0.75%.

Any thoughts as to why this has occurred?

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HandelsPharmi
Pharmi on CharBazaar
#7 - 2015-04-03 18:10:12 UTC
Please, make a screenshot
GankYou
9B30FF Labs
#8 - 2015-04-03 18:30:54 UTC
Tzar Sinak wrote:
Excellent. Thanks.

Just tried an experiment:

I left my corp to see the effect on broker tax from various stations in different regions.

"Home" station went up to the single digits.
I went to a popular trade hub and my rate was in the triple digits (642.something% !!!)

I went "home" and rejoined my corp and something interesting happened...

I found that different items I sell have different broker rates. Remember when I started I was getting a 0.75% broker tax for everything. There is now a range of rates from 0.4% to as high as 1675.04% for items that would have been 0.75%.

Any thoughts as to why this has occurred?


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Tzar Sinak
Mythic Heights
#9 - 2015-04-04 15:48:31 UTC
Thanks for the response guys. I ended up putting in a ticket. The mess seemed to be fixed when I cleared my cache. After that my broker fee settled in at 0.4%. A definite improvement.

Bottom line, my experiment of switching back and forth with my corp lead me to realizing that the cache needs to be looked at when you get really flaky results.

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