{"id":994187,"date":"2026-02-21T11:25:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994187"},"modified":"2026-02-21T11:25:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:55:42","slug":"elon-musk-projects-a-lifetime-tax-payment-exceeding-500-billion-including","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/21\/elon-musk-projects-a-lifetime-tax-payment-exceeding-500-billion-including\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk projects a lifetime tax payment exceeding $500 billion, including\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk, the world\u2019s richest person, has made a new claim regarding his financial legacy. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) he said that he expects to pay more than $500 billion in taxes over his lifetime. The projection comes as Musk\u2019s personal fortune reached a staggering $852 billion this month. This massive jump in wealth follows a merger between his rocket company, SpaceX, and his artificial intelligence firm, xAI, creating a combined giant valued at $1.25 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a video in which he joked about his status as the \u201clargest individual taxpayer in history\u201d, Musk said that he has already paid over $10 billion in taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk, the world\u2019s richest person, has made a new claim regarding his financial legacy. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) he said that he expects to pay more than $500 billion in taxes over his lifetime. The projection comes as Musk\u2019s personal fortune reached a staggering $852 billion this month. This massive jump in wealth follows a merger between his rocket company, SpaceX, and his artificial intelligence firm, xAI, creating a combined giant valued at $1.25 trillion. Responding to a video in which he joked about his status as the \u201clargest individual taxpayer in history\u201d, Musk said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994187","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}