# RAO Buy and Sell Fees

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**Fee Structure: Powering the Ecosystem Growth**\
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Transaction taxes on buys and sells are a fundamental component of the Rao Cash ecosystem, engineered to sustain and bolster the value of **$RAO**. These fees are strategically reinvested into the protocol’s longevity and market stability.\
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Currently, a <mark style="color:green;">**8% Buy Tax**</mark> and a <mark style="color:green;">**8% Sell Tax**</mark> are applied to all transactions. Our long-term roadmap includes a significant reduction of these fees, aiming to provide our community with the most competitive and lowest trading costs in the market.\
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**Tax Allocation Breakdown:**

* **4% — Reflections:** Automatically distributed to holders' wallets as passive yield.
* **2% — Liquidity Pool:** Routed to PancakeSwap to ensure deep market liquidity and low slippage.
* **1% — Insurance Treasury:** Allocated for price support, continuous development, and global marketing.
* **1% — Auto Hyper-Burn:** Permanently incinerated to drive deflationary scarcity.

**The RAO Horizon:**\
Explore our expanding suite of products, including RaoBank, NFT Marketplace, Staking, Mining, DeFi protocols, News Portal, Web3 integration, DAO, RAOSwap, and the RAOWallet app. Millions of users have already integrated into our innovative global ecosystem.\
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**The Ultimate Advantage:**\
$RAO is one of the few assets where holders benefit from market volatility. Whether "whales" or retail traders buy or sell, the resulting fees directly empower our holders and fund the expansion of the **Rao Cash ecosystem**.

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