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This may seem like a bad idea but if its lowered by 0.25% or some small amount I think it would be a good idea. This would allow those who buy and trade items to save a few PD while not breaking the game

This is wrong on so many levels.

Imagine in real life people from different classes have to pay different taxes.
Premium users are often the richer users in game currency, so instead of helping the "poor" people, let's help those that have.
Is not morally right despite this is just a game.

I don't see clearly good points in whole this suggestion.

Vasily, your argument would make sense if the tax was actually used for something (i.e. distributed for the common good). The way it is implemented currently it's more of an artificial fee for paying with PD in a trade than an actual tax. It's probably there just to control inflation, though looking at the prices of many things it might not be doing a very good job at that either.

Good/bad ideas aside... I fail to see how lowering the PD tax by some small amount - 0.25% - would make all that much of a difference? The current tax is after all, only 5%, and I personally never had that be a problem, even with large amounts of PD... so 5% vs 4.75%? Meh.

But for argument’s sake, say that the 5% is a problem, why is it something that should be limited to Premium users? Allowing “those who buy and trade items to save a few PD,” as you said, should include non-Premium, cause y’know, they buy/trade PD as well?

@kikkoman1, I don’t think that inflation is a particular problem on PH, if in comparison to other sites, tbh. The price of many things do skyrocket sometimes, but that’s due to their supply and demand when new items or Pokémon are released. It has nothing to do with the worth of PD, not when prices stabilize themselves in a few weeks/months time.

Of course money from taxes goes into void here, but that doesn't have to mean it should not exist. I really think changes are not needed for this since it was like this since always.
Is good to have things that will eat PD and stop the possible future devaluation of it.

Lowering taxes for everyone was suggested before here, in case anyone is interested.

This suggestion has received less than 60% support and was moved to rejected.

Total votes: 22
Support ratio: 22%

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