A major exposé by ProPublica has revealed how U.S.
billionaires pay little in income tax compared to
their massive wealth, or sometimes even nothing.
Private tax records of some of the country’s top
billionaires show that between 2014 and 2018 the
wealthiest 25 Americans how that between 2014 and
2018 the wealthiest 25 Americans saw their
collective wealth jump by more than $400 billion,
but they paid just over $13 billion in federal
income taxes — amounting to a tax rate of just 3.4%.
June 16, 2021
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