Elon Musk will pay the largest tax in US history - Tesla CEO will add $ 10 million to the treasury

By: Maksim Panasovskiy | 17.12.2021, 09:42
Elon Musk will pay the largest tax in US history - Tesla CEO will add $ 10 million to the treasury

American billionaire Elon Musk plans to become the largest taxpayer in the history of the United States.

What is known

Musk chatted on Twitter with Senator Elizabeth Warren. The Tesla CEO noted that he will pay more taxes in 2021 than any US resident in history. According to calculations Bloomberg, Tesla CEO will add $ 10 billion to the state treasury.

This is the kind of tax that Elon Musk will have to pay if he decides to use all the options. The billionaire exercised about 15 million options. To pay taxes, Musk is active sells out their shares. In five weeks, he sold several million securities for almost $ 13 billion.

A source: @elonmusk