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# Fees & Staking Level
## Fees & Staking Level
With Taco Swap, users can trade tokens for the lowest fees in the market. The 0.3% standard fee is composed of two parts:
* 0.1%, distributed to the pool owners, based on their liquidity pool share
* 0.2%, the Taco Team Fee: this % can be reduced down to .05% with staking
Users have the opportunity to pay fees in TACO in order to reduce the Taco Team fee.
In order to pay fees in TACO, users have to deposit their TACO to their [Taco Swap Account & Rewards](https://taco-2.gitbook.io/taco-swap/manage/my-account) balance.
The reduction of the Taco Team fee is based not only on paying fees with TACO, but also on the staking level of the single user.
The staking level is based on total amount of TACO staked in the [S.A.L.S.A pools](https://taco-2.gitbook.io/taco-swap/get-started/fees-and-staking-level#fees-and-staking-level).
| Staking Level | Taco Team Fee % | TACO Staked |
| ------------- | --------------- | ----------- |
| **0** | 0.15% | 0 |
| 1 | 0.10% | 100 |
| 2 | 0.09% | 1,000 |
| 3 | 0.08% | 5,000 |
| 4 | 0.07% | 15,000 |
| 5 | 0.06% | 50,000 |
| 6 | 0.05% | 100,000 |
{% hint style="success" %}
Taco VIP holders automatically reach Level 6. [Get TACO VIP NFT here](https://wax.atomichub.io/market?collection_name=taco\&order=desc\&schema_name=membership\&sort=created\&symbol=WAX).
{% endhint %}
{% hint style="info" %}
**Examples:**\
1\) A user is swapping with Staking Level 0 and TACO tokens held in the account. Swap fee: 0.25%\
2\) A user is swapping with Staking Level 1 and TACO tokens held in the account. Swap fee: 0.20%\
3\) A user is swapping with Staking Level 6 and TACO tokens held in the account. Swap fee: 0.15%\
4\) A user is swapping with Staking Level 6 **without** TACO held in the account. Swap fee: 0.3%
**In order to pay less fees, TACO tokens must be held in the "My Account & Rewards" balance.**
{% endhint %}
{% hint style="warning" %}
Whenever a user is selling a token which is not paired with WAX inside the Taco Swap, the users will pay 0.3% swap fee.
**Example:** \
1\) A user is swapping SHING/ONI, but there is not an existing SHING/WAX pool. Swap fee: 0.3%
{% endhint %}
The staking level also determines other perks and provides limited access to other Taco features.
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