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US investigates leak of records showing billionaires pay little tax ProPublica report measures tax take against total welath rather than income
about 2 hours ago Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is among the billionaires whose tax details have been published. Photograph: Sajjad Hussain/AFP via Getty Images
US tax authorities have launched an investigation into a leak of private records of billionaires including Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, Mike Bloomberg, George Soros and Elon Musk that showed many of them have paid little tax even as their wealth ballooned.
ProPublica published details of what it called “a vast trove of Internal Revenue Service data” covering more than 15 years of tax returns from thousands of the wealthiest Americans. The non-profit investigative journalism outlet did not disclose the source of the leak.