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  • this billionaire asshole avoided $1b in taxes this year

    From Retrograde@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 8 00:42:31 2024
    XPost: us.taxes

    From the «eat the rich» department:
    Title: Jeff Bezos's Move From WA To FL Has Saved Him Close To $1B in Taxes This Year
    Author: feedback@slashdot.org
    Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2024 18:42:00 +0000
    Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/07/07/186222/jeff-bezoss-move-from-wa-to-fl-has-saved-him-close-to-1b-in-taxes-this-year?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

    As Amazon's stock hits a record high (rising 32% just this year), long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: GeekWire reports that Jeff Bezos keeps selling Amazon stock after announcing his move away from Washington state — and its 7%
    tax on capital gains of more than $262,000 from the sale of stocks and bonds —
    to Florida, which does not have a capital gains tax (like WA, FL also does not tax personal income). Taylor Soper writes, "Bezos saved more than $600 million by moving to Miami and avoiding Washington's capital gains tax, CNBC reported in February, based on his sale of 50 million shares [$8.5 billion] earlier this year. With the sale of 25 million additional shares [$5 billion], revealed this week in a regulatory filing, Bezos will likely have saved close to $1 billion in total so far. It's a giant chunk of change that would have otherwise gone to the state of Washington."

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    Read more of this story[5] at Slashdot.

    Links:
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  • From D@21:1/5 to Retrograde on Mon Jul 8 12:12:29 2024
    XPost: us.taxes

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    On Mon, 8 Jul 2024, Retrograde wrote:

    From the «eat the rich» department:
    Title: Jeff Bezos's Move From WA To FL Has Saved Him Close To $1B in Taxes This Year
    Author: feedback@slashdot.org
    Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2024 18:42:00 +0000
    Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/07/07/186222/jeff-bezoss-move-from-wa-to-fl-has-saved-him-close-to-1b-in-taxes-this-year?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

    As Amazon's stock hits a record high (rising 32% just this year), long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: GeekWire reports that Jeff Bezos keeps selling Amazon stock after announcing his move away from Washington state — and its 7%
    tax on capital gains of more than $262,000 from the sale of stocks and bonds —
    to Florida, which does not have a capital gains tax (like WA, FL also does not
    tax personal income). Taylor Soper writes, "Bezos saved more than $600 million
    by moving to Miami and avoiding Washington's capital gains tax, CNBC reported in February, based on his sale of 50 million shares [$8.5 billion] earlier this
    year. With the sale of 25 million additional shares [$5 billion], revealed this
    week in a regulatory filing, Bezos will likely have saved close to $1 billion in total so far. It's a giant chunk of change that would have otherwise gone to
    the state of Washington."

    [image 2][2][image 4][4]

    Read more of this story[5] at Slashdot.

    Links:
    [1]: http://twitter.com/home?status=Jeff+Bezos's+Move+From+WA+To+FL+Has+Saved+Him+Close+To+%241B+in+Taxes+This+Year%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F24%2F07%2F07%2F186222%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter (link)
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    [5]: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/07/07/186222/jeff-bezoss-move-from-wa-to-fl-has-saved-him-close-to-1b-in-taxes-this-year?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed (link)


    Don't worry, as far as I know, the US also has federal taxes, so plenty of millions rolling in from Bezos.

    If he would be serious, he could probably just move to the Bahamas or
    setup a non-profit foundation and then he'd pay a lot less than he does
    today.

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 8 06:50:08 2024
    On 08 Jul 2024 00:42:31 GMT, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
    wrote:

    Bezos will likely have saved close to $1 billion
    in total so far.

    A silly game.....having more toys for what reason?

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Mon Jul 8 23:29:46 2024
    On Mon, 8 Jul 2024, JAB wrote:

    On 08 Jul 2024 00:42:31 GMT, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid>
    wrote:

    Bezos will likely have saved close to $1 billion
    in total so far.

    A silly game.....having more toys for what reason?


    Enjoyment of the game? Power? Investing in new ventures? Who knows!

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to nospam@example.net on Mon Jul 8 20:15:00 2024
    On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 23:29:46 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

    Bezos will likely have saved close to $1 billion
    in total so far.

    A silly game.....having more toys for what reason?


    Enjoyment of the game? Power? Investing in new ventures? Who knows!


    I can understand why Larry Ellison bought Lanai for $300 million. I
    can understand having multiple homes here/there for various reasons.

    But the $500 million superyacht owned by Jeff Bezos is nothing more
    than a "me too" vessel, and a poor ROI.

    "In fact, the 417-foot Koru is so big, it has its own 250-foot support vessel.....Highly personalized, the yacht is complete with a
    figurehead modeled after Bezos' fiancee Lauren Sanchez."


    Bezos is not a rational person...."Conspicuous consumption is the
    purchase of goods or services for the specific purpose of displaying
    one's wealth."

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