Musk estimated his lifetime tax payments at $500 billion.

American entrepreneur, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, said that he plans to pay taxes totaling about $500 billion over his entire life. The billionaire wrote about this on February 20 in his social network X (ex. Twitter).

"I will probably pay $500 billion in taxes before I die," Musk said, without specifying the calculation method for this amount.

Earlier, the businessman had already called himself the largest individual taxpayer in the history of mankind. According to him, at the moment the total amount of his tax deductions has already exceeded $ 10 billion.

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Forbes magazine reported on February 3 that Musk became the first person in history whose fortune exceeded $800 billion. The capital growth occurred after a deal in which his company SpaceX acquired the xAI project, which increased the businessman's fortune to record levels.

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