{"id":990667,"date":"2026-02-09T08:17:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990667"},"modified":"2026-02-09T08:26:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T02:56:50","slug":"the-sale-of-xai-comes-with-tax-financial-legal-benefits-for-xai-and-spacex-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/09\/the-sale-of-xai-comes-with-tax-financial-legal-benefits-for-xai-and-spacex-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"The sale of xAI comes with tax, financial &amp; legal benefits for xAI and SpaceX investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk used a common two-step merger process in SpaceX&#8217;s purchase of xAI that had the dual benefit of avoiding the repayment of billions of dollars in debt while giving shareholders a tax advantage, according to \u200dpeople familiar with the transaction. It also protects SpaceX from any legal liability from xAI. <\/p>\n<p>The deal, announced on Monday, creates a $1.25 trillion company with plans to go public later this year to help finance Musk&#8217;s ambitions to put data centers in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk used a common two-step merger process in SpaceX&#8217;s purchase of xAI that had the dual benefit of avoiding the repayment of billions of dollars in debt while giving shareholders a tax advantage, according to \u200dpeople familiar with the transaction. It also protects SpaceX from any legal liability from xAI. The deal, announced on Monday, creates a $1.25 trillion company with plans to go public later this year to help finance Musk&#8217;s ambitions to put data centers in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}