The phrase "reduce the fee" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when you are asking someone to lower the cost of something. For example: "I would like to request that you reduce the fee for the service."
Many other countries, including Israel and Australia, have required banks that issue cards to reduce the fee.
When the current drive to reduce the fee started two years ago, the main objection was that cutting it would amount to a giveaway to Wall Street, said Leopold Korins, president of the Security Traders Association.
Congress is expected to reduce the fee -- called the Section 31 transaction fee -- which is a charge of 1/300th of 1percentt on the value of every securities sale.
So, he said, if the landlord cannot be persuaded to eliminate or reduce the fee, the letter writer will either have to accept the landlord's terms or find another apartment.
Some credit cards, though, can help reduce the fee burden — and maybe even reduce time wasted as attendants pry excess bags from the hands of desperate passengers and wheel them away to be checked.
The government could indeed regulate to reduce the fee paid to doctors by $5 per visit – as its co-payment policy envisages – effectively trying to force doctors to implement a policy the parliament has rejected (and 66% of the electorate disapproves of, according to an October Essential poll).
"If we're going to do this, let's reduce the fees on the other side.
But it would reduce the fees collected by tax preparers and the tax software companies.
This would reduce the fees paid to the FAA by airlines, negating most of the beneficial impact on the deficit.
Using its own direct system would reduce the fees American pays to list its fares on travel agents' sites.
It also plans, in coming months, to reduce the fees it charges to check a bag, among other reductions.
