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Are you saying that when Bezos sells Amazon stock he's not paying capital gains tax?

That wouldn't surprise me. There are probably entire companies working on nothing else but to reduce his taxes.

The tax rate is also low enough that if he does pay, it's not much. 15% total instead of the 30-40‰ I currently pay.

40‰ = 4% < 15%

Oooo hey wow I have no idea why that character was entered, guess I typoed something on mobile with a long press. Weird :)

A nitpick: the long term capital gains tax for the top bracket is 20%, not 15% [1]. My guess is that Jeff Bezos is in the top bracket.

Oooo neato I never knew there was a tiering of rates like this-- probably because I haven't had a reason to find out XD thanks for the info