Solana
Change Your Token’s Tax Rate on Solana
A tax rate is not carved in stone. If your token collects a transfer fee, the wallet holding its rate authority can raise it, lower it, or cap the tax any single transfer can pay — in one signed transaction. Solana schedules the change about two epochs out, roughly four to five days, so your holders are never surprised mid-trade. That delay is the chain’s own fair-warning rule, and this page is honest about it.
The exact total — platform fee plus the real network cost — is quoted in the console before anything is signed.
The new rate arrives on a schedule, not instantly
When you set a new fee, the chain keeps trading on the current one and switches at the start of the second epoch after your change — roughly four to five days. Change your mind before then and a second update simply replaces the scheduled one. The app shows both the live rate and the scheduled one so there is never a mystery about which applies.
Cap what one trade can pay
The rate and the per-transfer cap are set together. The cap puts a ceiling on the tax taken from any single transfer — useful when whales move size and a pure percentage would take more than you ever intended. Tokens created here can set that cap at launch too; tokens created elsewhere often ship without one, and this is where you add it.
Only the rate authority can touch it
The change is checked live against your token’s rate authority before anything is built — if another wallet holds it, the page names that wallet; if it was given up, the rate is locked forever and the page says exactly that. No transaction is ever built that the chain would reject.
Questions
- How long until the new tax rate is live?
- About two epochs — roughly four to five days on Solana. The delay is enforced by the token program itself as protection against surprise rate changes, and it applies to everyone equally.
- Can I remove the tax entirely?
- Yes — set the rate to zero and, after the scheduled switch, transfers stop withholding anything. Already-withheld tax stays collectable; sweep it any time with Collect My Token’s Tax.
- What does the per-transfer cap do?
- It limits the tax taken from any one transfer, in whole tokens. A 3% rate with a 5,000-token cap means a million-token transfer pays 5,000 in tax, not 30,000. Set it high and it never bites; set it low and big trades pay a bounded amount.
- What happens if I revoked the rate authority?
- Then the rate is locked forever — that is what revoking means, and no tool can undo it. The page checks this live and tells you before anything is signed or paid.