Today, Tesla CEO Musk said on foreign social platforms that he will pay more than $11 billion (about 70.1 billion yuan) in taxes this year.
In a tweet last week, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted a "war of words," Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he would pay more taxes than anyone in history, "just 2 seconds to know that I'm going to pay more taxes this year than any american in history."
It is worth noting that according to the US Securities exchange documents, Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold 934091 shares of Tesla stock on December 16, valuing it at $884 million (about 5.63 billion yuan), and Musk has sold about 12900512 shares of Tesla stock since November 8, accounting for 75.66% of the number of shares he had previously promised.
Musk launched an online voting campaign on Twitter earlier last month and announced that he would decide whether to sell 10% of all Tesla shares he owned based on the voting results, and the cash amount is expected to be close to $21 billion (about 134.3 billion yuan).
In this way, 70 billion yuan is only a dime for Musk.
In addition, netizens do not seem to buy Musk's tax behavior, some netizens said that "according to statistics, Musk did not pay any federal personal income tax in 2018, from 2014 to 2018, Musk's actual tax rate was 3.27%"; some netizens said that "previously reported that he avoided taxes, for a long time there was no dime of tax, now there is no tax avoidance loophole, normal payment, what is there to brag about?" As the richest man, it is not unusual to pay the most taxes, right? ”。
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