ProPublica's year-long investigation reveals how billionaires systematically avoid taxes through strategies unavailable to most Americans
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Paul Kiel
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ProPublica summarizes a year-long investigation into how billionaires like Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, and Jeff Bezos use sophisticated tax-avoidance strategies largely unavailable to average taxpayers. Drawing from the largest trove of confidential American tax data ever obtained, the article outlines key techniques that allow the ultrawealthy to amass enormous fortunes while paying minimal taxes, including strategies such as the "Ultra Wealth Effect" and other mechanisms detailed throughout the series.
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· 3 pulledOur first story unraveled how billionaires like Elon Musk, Warren Buffett and Jeff Bezos were able to amass some of the largest fortunes in history while paying little to nothing in taxes.
Drawing on the largest trove of confidential American tax data that's ever been obtained, ProPublica launched a series of stories documenting the key ways the ultrawealthy avoid taxes.
All of which can generate tax savings on a massive scale.
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