In November, Musk sent Twitter users a vote on whether to sell ten percent of Tesla’s shares and promised to abide by the voting result. More than 3.5 million people took part in the vote, with about 58 percent in favor of the sale of shares.
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Since then, Musk has sold shares worth $ 16.4 billion. Much of the revenue from their sale should go to paying taxes. Musk said some time ago that he would pay over $ 11 billion in taxes last year due to the exercise of stock options. However, the donation to charity should help reduce Musk’s tax liability, Bloomberg warned.
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Tesla’s boss has repeatedly been criticized for not paying a fair share of taxes. For example, US Sen. Elizabeth Warren urged him to pay taxes and stop “living at the expense of everyone else.”
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Musk is the richest man in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, his assets now stand at about $ 227 billion. Last December, Time magazine and the Financial Times named Muska Personality of the Year.
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