Zuck Tax: Facebook Will Take a 50% Cut of Sales Within ‘Metaverse’

Facebook reportedly plans to take an almost 50 percent cut of all virtual asset sales in its “Metaverse” digital universe. Mark Zuckerberg and the Masters of the Universe stand to make a fortune if trading NFTs takes off in what he touts as the future of the internet.

CNBC reports that Facebook (now known as Meta) plans to tax sales on its virtual reality platform Horizon Worlds by up to 47.5 percent. Facebook announced in a recent blog post that it is allowing a small number of Horizon Worlds creators to sell virtual assets within the worlds they develop. However, what Facebook failed to mention is how much of every sale creators will be forced to give up.

A Facebook spokesperson told CNBC that the company will take an overall cut of as much as 47.5 percent on each transaction, which includes a “hardware platform fee” of 30 percent for sales made via the Meta Quest store and a Horizon Worlds fee of 17.5 percent.

Many users are understandably angered by the move, especially those in the NFT space who were excited at the idea of selling digital NFTs in the metaverse. One user told Facebook very simply: “I hate you.” – READ MORE