Elon Musk, the richest person in the world and CEO Tesla, said on Twitter that he would pay more than $ 11 billion in taxes this year, the number that could form a record payment for the US internal income.
Billionaires can face a tax bill of more than $ 10 billion for 2021 if he runs all his choices because of the expiration next year, the calculation last week by Bloomberg News shows.
The incredible Levy came after Musk carried out nearly 15 million choices and sold millions of shares to cover taxes related to the transaction.
It followed the Twitter poll last month when he asked followers whether he had to sell 10% of his shares in an electric car, whose shares have skyrocketed more than 2,300% over the past five years.
Since unusual steps to ask for Twitter users about the plan, Tesla has decreased by almost a quarter and the company’s market value has slid back under a sign of $ 1 trillion to $ 937 billion.
A report by Propublica in June said Musk paid a little income tax relative to his outsize wealth.
But he pushed back the characterization, said he did not draw a salary from SpaceX or Tesla, and pay a 53% effective tax rate in the stock option he did.
He added that he expects the tax rate to increase next year.
Musk earlier this month said he would pay more tax than Americans in history this year.
It was in response to other tweets from Senator Massachusetts, who used the award ‘of the Year of the Year’s Magazine to call him at his tax