Jeff Bezos to pay $5bn under wealth tax? In a bid to accelerate wealth gap.

KEYPOINTS • Jeff Bezos would owe $5.7 billion in taxes for 2020 under the Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act proposed by a group of Senate and House Democrats and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday. • The tax would be a 2% annual levy on wealth over $50 million and 3% on wealth over $1 billion. • Elon Musk would owe $4.6 billion in 2020 and would still have a fortune of over $148 billion at the end of the year. • Bill Gates would have to pay $3.6 billion for 2020,…

RELIABLE SOURCE: Bill Gates chooses to remain neutral about crypto assets.

Bill Gates, popular tech billionaire and founder of the world’s most valuable software maker, Microsoft, recently revealed he is open-minded towards the world’s most popular crypto asset but does support the digitalization of fiat currencies as it would drive down the operational costs of managing paper money.