Hey there! I'm afraid that the trade tax is working as intended, but I can understand how this would be frustrating; the trade tax is a relatively new implementation, so it's possible at some point they'll make it more friendly toward preferred players, but these things can take time.
Yeah I suppose they had to curb the people selling stuff for actual profit in-game, but there should be a reasonable gift option.
I even have a silent ghost armor set from one of the fleet vendors which I bought with credits and cartel certificates, and even though I got it with purely in-game currency I can't even gift that to someone else without paying tax higher than my credit limit.
This tax just prevents me from giving people extra things I don't need, even Nar shaddaa nightlife prizes have a ridiculous amount of tax and I need to get rid of those somehow but I can't due to credit limits being below tax price.
I would even settle for a bind-on-recieving gift option but this is just madness.
