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Between 2019 and 2020, Via evaded 643 million yuan in taxes through various illegal means, and other underpaid taxes by 0.6 billion yuan. At present, Wei Ya has been banned by the whole network, and the live broadcast with a sister officially fell off the altar, basically announcing that it was cool.
At the same time, "Iron Man" on the other side of the ocean, Tesla, SpaceX founder and CEO Musk is chanting: Lao Tzu has paid more than $11 billion (about 70 billion yuan) in taxes this year.
Bloomberg said that if Musk makes good on his promises, it will make Musk the biggest taxpayer in U.S. history.
Good guys, feelings Musk also brush Weibo, but also rub a rub viavia's hot spots?
In fact, Musk was also forced.
Musk has been forced by American public opinion to pay taxes recently, you accuse me of tax avoidance, want me to pay taxes, that line, I will sell 10% of the stock.
On November 6, Tesla CEO Elon Musk launched a vote online, asking netizens to vote on whether he should sell his 10% tesla stock.
This is basically equivalent to putting the pressure of public opinion on him and transferring it to Tesla's shareholders to bear it together. ‘
Previously, Musk also "forced taxes" with the Democratic Party leader, who was Sanders, who had run for the president of the United States.
Sanders was born in 1941 and is 80 years old.
Musk also fatally responded: Are you still alive? If you want me to sell more stocks, you can say!
But why does Musk pay so much tax? In fact, it is because he wants to cash out.
Brief explanation.
Musk has a batch of Tesla options that are about to expire (you can simply understand the right to buy Tesla stock at a low price), exercise needs to pay taxes, execute stock options, and pay taxes when you become a stock holder, so this is a matter of course. Nothing to say.
Musk has gone to great lengths to avoid taxes.
A few days ago, TIME magazine announced that Musk was named "2021 Person of the Year" by Time magazine.
Still, Time magazine's approach has been sharply criticized in the United States. In the United States, Musk is a controversial figure.
For example, he opposes the "billionaire tax" that many people support. According to a ProPublica survey this year, Musk and the other super-rich increased their total wealth significantly between 2014 and 2018, but only paid a very low tax rate, which Musk himself had a tax rate of only 3.27%.
Really rich people have all kinds of ways to bring down the tax rate.
In May last year, Musk announced that he would sell all his properties, and then moved from California to Texas in December, and Tesla moved its headquarters to Texas.
Musk did sell all the properties and lived in a "mobile board room" of more than 30 square meters, but it was a luxury version. A set worth $50,000.
Many people speculate that this move is actually to avoid taxes, because Musk does not have a property in California, he is no longer a California resident, so he can avoid California's personal income tax and capital gains tax, according to US media estimates, this move can save him 2.5 billion US dollars.
So what the onlooker sees is only what others want you to see, and even if you do, your IQ limits your imagination.
And what Musk said to the outside world, he said that he sold his property to gain freedom, and his wealth felt oppressive.
I can only say, old horse, you really deserve both.
The role of taxation is to regulate the social balance, if the rich people do not realize the responsibility behind the huge amount of wealth, but think that they are shrewd to avoid taxation, society will face the possibility of imbalance. Because laissez-faire development is uncontrollable, of course, the tax system should also be continuously improved with the development of the times.
Finally, let's tell more about Via and Musk:
Paying taxes is glorious, both in China and the United States.