The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax 16.6%
ProPublica - By Jesse Eisinger, Jeff Ernsthausen, Paul Kiel - 6/8/2021, 9:00 AM
Post Hoc (False Cause) 13.2% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 12.1% - Negativity Bias 11.8%
In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world’s richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, also paid no federal income taxes. Michael Bloomberg managed to do the same in recent years. Billionaire... more