Avoid Taxes on Items Sold

Tax rates on items sold through retainers changes every Saturday at 8am Pacific.

• The tax rate you have depends on where your retainer is dispatched. You can freely move where your retainer is dispatched from any time.

• The tax rates may change each week, but usually the 3 starting cities have 5% tax (no discount). Other cities usually will have a 3% tax (a 2% discount). Sometimes there will be a lucky city where they have a 0% tax (5% discount) for the week.

• You want the lowest tax (most discount) to retain the most profit!

Reducing your in-game tax obligation is especially important if you sell high-value items.

For example, if you sell an item for 1m gil at the normal 5% tax rate, you would lose 50k gil from the sale. Sell an item for 10m and you would lose 500k! Change your retainer to a tax haven of 3% to only lose 300k, or even a lucky week with 0% tax to not lose any gil on sales!

Check Market Tax Rates

Visit a Retainer Vocate, found in each major city where retainer services exist.

Select "View market tax rates."

Select a city to check their tax rate for the week!

See if there's a city with 0% to get no taxes taken out of items you sell for the week.

Dispatch Retainer to Avoid Taxes

Once you've found a city with a tax rate you like, go to that city's Retainer Vocate.

At the city's Retainer Vocate, select to "Dispatch a retainer" to that city.

Now when you go to your retainer and click view items you're selling, you should see the market tax reduction message at the bottom show the reduction you chose.