“To those who are wondering, I will pay more than $ 11 billion in taxes this year,” Musk wrote on Twitter, garnering more than half a million likes, more than 66,000 shares and 50,000 comments, most from people who mentioned, seriously or cynically, that this figure should put an end to Claims against the billionaire.
For those wondering, I will pay over $11 billion in taxes this year
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 20, 2021
Since the last U.S. presidential election season one of the sentences regularly said by President Joe Biden, Vice President Camela Harris and Democratic representatives in the House of Representatives and Senate is that the rich should “pay their fair share” in government-levied taxes. Ways, which include low official salaries (Elon Musk for example earns one dollar as Tesla CEO, and so do many others in his position), holding huge profits without realization and more.