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Richest Man In World Jeff Bezos Paid No Income Tax In 2007 & 2011

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Other billionaires, including Tesla's Elon Musk paid little to no income tax

Details claiming to reveal how little income tax US billionaires pay have been leaked to a news website.

ProPublica claims to have seen the tax returns of some of the world's richest people, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett.

The non-profit organisation alleges Amazon founder, Bezos, paid no tax in 2007, then a multi-billionaire, and 2011, with Tesla's boss, Musk, paying nothing in 2018 - both using legal loopholes.

The news organisation is not revealing how it obtained the information.

They do not their verification process, before publishing the data.

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