Regardless of the popularity and value, 2021 can be described as a bumper year for Elon Musk. As the world's richest man, family affairs, state affairs and even world affairs are related to him, and the United Nations wants to knock on this old brother's bamboo lever and hope that he will help solve the food problem. Without him, he sold nearly 10% of tesla shares in electric vehicle leader Tesla at the end of last year, cashing out more than $16 billion and handing over the largest tax in human history of more than $11 billion.
Musk helped Tesla work, one without salary, two without bonuses, three without allowances, unlike the leaders of some companies, even the expenses of shampooing, haircuts and cosmetic surgery are included in the company's number, the name is to ensure the company's healthy image. His only income is in 2012 Tesla approved an equity incentive mechanism, as long as he completes each of the 10 production and market capitalization double indicators, he can get a subscription right of equivalent 0.5% of the shares, the exercise price of $6.24 per share, complete 10 double indicators, you can exercise the stock option, subscribe for about 5% tesla shares, these ten indicators were originally hailed as "impossible to complete", but Musk inadvertently completed 9 in 2017, allowing him to obtain a considerable 4.5% Stock options for shares.
The stock option expired in the first quarter of 2022, and then in a polite Twitter survey in early November this year, more than half of the netizens supported him to sell a transaction tax, Musk began to sell Tesla, the stock price has fallen below the $900 mark, it is estimated that he still has 1 million Teslas to sell, and the stock price is back on Friday at $1,000, closing at $1,056.78.
In the past month, Tesla has traded between 24 million and 32 million shares per day, the stock price fluctuated from $900 to $1,100, at the median price of $1,000, the average daily turnover was $28 billion, the selling pressure is unimaginable, the turnover of a single stock is larger than the entire Taiwan stock or Hong Kong stock market, but no matter how many shares lao ma sells, the market has floating capital to receive goods.
To become rich, the first thing is to know how to legally avoid taxes, Jeff Bezos, the old horse's nemesis, Microsoft founder Gates and the stock god Buffett are all in different forms of tax avoidance, the Chinese rich's tax avoidance method is more perfect, there are yin and yang contracts in the entertainment industry, fake trade, inflated investment and domestic security foreign loans and other methods of capital, because only by transferring assets overseas can we ensure that all taxes and fees are avoided
In order to achieve the "common prosperity" advocated by the national leaders, in recent months, the State Administration of Taxation has carried out a nationwide tax recovery operation, and everyone knows that there are many rich people in China, and when these rich people are struggling to give back to the society, Musk has never thought of tax avoidance, but deliberately maximizes taxation.
When Musk said on Twitter to sell 10%, there are financial experts who have suggested that he directly sell the options at a discount to reduce the tax burden, because Musk's personal income tax is paid at the highest progressive tax rate of 37%, and in September this year, the US Congress just passed the increase in the maximum personal income tax rate to 39.6%, so once Musk exercises the option, there is only early sale and early payment of tax, plus the time of the approval of this batch of options, Tesla has not moved its headquarters to Texas, and Musk personally needs to pay an additional 13.3% California tax, another 3.8% investment tax, is about $54 in taxes for every $100 an individual earns.
The old horse has no long things on the surface of the rich life is exposed to live a rich life, Musk became a top rich man, indeed everywhere shows that he is different, he does not have too much cash and real estate, when he wants to use money, he takes Tesla or rocket launcher SpaceX and other shares to the bank pawn, he has no rest of the year, lives a monastic life in the workplace, often in texas Austin factory shop, of course, these anecdotes are not the norm, but the Wall Street Journal carefully tracks the investigation, The discovery that Musk borrowed the mansion of his PayPal partner at certain times of the year, rather than just living in a 500-foot cabin, suggests that the rich man sometimes lived the life of a rich man.
As an alternative rich man, Musk believes that there are other creatures in outer space, and may even have lurked on The Earth, if there is a crisis on the Earth, there is a need to colonize Mars (1 million people) to ensure that human civilization is not easy to interrupt, and it is thought that Marvel's anime hero is a bold statement to defend the Earth. Like another Ma Yun, Marcos was accused of being a Martian, and he did not seriously deny that if not, why he was so keen on developing interstellar travel, the Starship starship he developed would be the most efficient, flat and advanced space vehicle in human history, with a capacity of up to 150 tons and 100 people, and the entire rocket weighed more than a thousand tons. For suspected alien objects like him, the concept of wealth is naturally different from that of Earthlings.
Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-shing once said: "rich as a floating cloud", which shows his attitude to wealth, but really to see the rich as a floating cloud, in the real world may not be able to do it, but Musk has been working hard to build an important part of human modern civilization, at least at this stage, Musk does not regard the accumulation of wealth as the most important goal of life, if you make a detailed list, Musk's companies are at the forefront of the times, Tesla develops green transportation tools, SpaceX helps people star travel, Starlink solves the global network coverage, reduces the inequity of the information society, Neuralink is more magical, the development of human nerve recovery function, a single successful project has created great benefits for mankind.