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Entrepreneur Elon Musk has sold
934,090 Tesla shares,
worth
$ 1.02 billion,
in recent days
,
according to documents published by the
United States Securities Market Commission (SEC).
Musk, who has informed his
followers
that he will pay around $ 11 billion in taxes this year, has already sold about $ 15 billion worth of shares in the electric car maker since November.
CNBC
also said that Musk has exercised options to purchase 1.6 million Tesla shares at a price of
$ 6.24 per share
as part of a compensation package agreed to in 2012. Today, the value of Tesla shares it stood at $ 1,077 per share.
The newspaper
The Wall Street Journal
reported that the participation of Musk Tesla now stands at around
177 million shares.
Forbes
estimates that Musk is the
richest man in the world
with an estimated fortune of $ 275 billion.
Musk is not paid for his role as CEO of Tesla and the aerospace company
SpaceX
and has chosen to be compensated in shares of the two companies.
This has allowed Musk not to pay taxes on his extreme fortune because in the United States taxpayers only pay taxes on their income or when they sell shares.
To finance his lifestyle, Musk receives loans from financial institutions backed by the massive value of his shares.
Musk is forced to
liquidate 10% of his shares,
which will force him to pay the 11,000 million dollars in taxes, in order to receive in the coming months options on shares worth 23,000 million dollars.
Elon Musk.Hannibal HanschkeAP
The options
expire in August 2022.
If Musk had waited until 2022, he would have had to pay a higher amount in taxes.
In early November, Musk asked his 62.5 million Twitter followers whether he should sell 10% of his shares.
"There's been a lot of talk about unrealized profits as a way to avoid paying taxes so I'm proposing to sell 10% of my shares in Tesla. Do you support it?" Musk asked.
The result of the survey conducted by Musk was a majority of "Yes."
After conducting the survey, the businessman proceeded to sell
$ 14 billion in
company
shares
.
CNBC said it estimates Musk has yet to sell another million Tesla shares in order to hit the 10% target.
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