Tesla CEO Elon Musk is asking on Twitter whether he should sell 10 percent of his stock in the electric vehicle company amid pressure in Washington to increase taxes on billionaires like him.Some Democrats have been pushing for billionaires to pay taxes when the price of the stocks they hold goes up, even if they do not sell any shares. It is a concept called “unrealised gains,” and Musk is sitting on a lot of them with a net worth of roughly $300bn.“Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10 percent of my Tesla stock,” he tweeted on Saturday. “Do you support this?”
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