Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 9 June 2021

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1. Bezos and Musk ‘paid no tax’

A leaked report has claimed that America’s richest executives, including Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, have avoided paying income tax over several years. The investigative journalist group ProPublica says Amazon’s Bezos paid no tax in 2007 and 2011, while Tesla’s Musk paid nothing in 2018. Financier George Soros paid no federal income tax for three consecutive years, it claims. The billionaires used “tax strategies which are perfectly legal”, says Sky News. The White House said the FBI would investigate the disclosure of private tax information.

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