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Mark Zuckerberg owns 13% of Meta but controls 61% of its votes. California’s wealth tax would bill him on the 13%

Paying a potential $12 billion bill would have meant selling the shares that give him control. A new class of stock solves that.
California voters will decide on Nov. 3 whether the state’s billionaires should pay a one-time 5% tax on their net worth. Some of them have already left, like Peter Thiel and Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They join seven billionaires so far who have publicly moved out of the state, taking about $540 billion, or 30% of the state’s billionaire wealth. Meanwhile, others like Jensen Huang are staying. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg looked, up until now, as if he would also join Huang in staying in the state where his company is…
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