Twitterers vote to sell Tesla shares from Elon Musk | Abroad

“I was willing to accept both results,” Musk said in a tweet after the poll closed. With that, he responded to the question whether the poll went as he wanted. Musk created the poll on Saturday, after Democrats in the United States came up with a proposal to tax the shares of billionaires more heavily. The Tesla boss had previously criticized the plan.

“There’s been a lot of fuss lately about unrealized gains being a tax avoidance tool, so I’m proposing to sell 10 percent of my Tesla stock,” Musk wrote in the poll. Other Twitter users could then vote yes or no. Not all of his followers cast a vote. That is a total of 62.7 million.

Musk said when creating the poll that he does not receive wages or bonuses, but has shares and only pays taxes on the sale of those shares. He also added that regardless of the result of the poll, he would stick to the outcome.

The successful entrepreneur owned 170.5 million shares in Tesla on June 30. The 10 percent sale will bring him about 21 billion dollars (18.2 billion euros). Tesla is currently the most valuable car company in the world. Musk also has stakes in other companies, such as neurotechnology company Neuralink and space company SpaceX. His wealth is estimated by Bloomberg at $338 billion (more than 292 billion euros).

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