Billionaire Elon Musk claimed on Twitter that he would pay $ 11 billion (roughly € 9.76 billion) in taxes in 2021.
Last November, the billionaire asked his followers on Twitter if he should sell 10% of the shares of his company Tesla in order to make his contribution to the US Treasury.
After being told “yes, he should,” the man elapsed a few weeks ago, as the market capitalization of the electric vehicle maker surpassed $ 1 trillion, 14 million shares. – a sale of historic magnitude.
The whimsical boss, also at the head of SpaceX in particular, then announced to Senator Elizabeth Warren, who reproached him for not paying enough taxes, that he was going to “pay more taxes than any American in the world. ‘History this year’.
According to a ProPublica survey published in June and relayed by Forbes, Elon Musk has paid “little or no income tax in recent years. Between 2014 and 2018, the eccentric billionaire paid a total of $ 455 million in federal income taxes, even as his personal fortune grew by more than $ 13 billion. In 2018, Elon Musk paid no income tax, according to the report, ”explains the magazine.
Note that the $ 11 billion that he announces to pay to the US Tax this year should not really be lacking in the Time Personality of the year who has a fortune estimated at $ 265 billion (the equivalent of roughly 235.10 billion euros), which according to Forbes currently makes him the richest person in the world ahead of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
For those wondering, I will pay over $ 11 billion in taxes this year
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 20, 2021