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> 25. Jeff Bezos

> 49. Bill & Melinda Gates [NEW TO LR100]

I knew Bill Gates had a lot of land, but that information about Jeff Bezos is new to me. Too bad the report doesn't say how much land they own.

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From a link posted by someone else, he owns 420,000 acres in Texas used by Blue Origin. https://editions.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=611...

And Bill Gates bought a bunch of farmland. See here for the full details of his purchases: https://editions.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=611...

Don't know about the US, but in the UK ownership of farmland is used as an inheritance tax dodge. Because of land rich but money poor farmers as a voting constituency, farmland is not counted for inheritance tax. The predictable result of this is people like Dyson owning most of the farmland in Lincolnshire (https://whoownsengland.org/2017/09/19/why-is-james-dyson-hoo...)

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