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Or. Maybe, just maybe, he used it to avoid paying taxes like other billionaires do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/business/donor-advised-fu...

This article is about DAFs. Is there evidence that's what Musk is doing?

It is pure speculation

What problem do you have specifically with donor advised funds?

that was for tax reasons.

You can't net money by donating to charity. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what a tax deduction is.

No one said you could. That doesn’t mean it’s not still financially beneficial.

How can it be financially beneficial if you lose money doing it?

And yet there's reason to believe that that the unloading of those 10% of Tesla shares was to cover a looming $15 billion tax bill. And he would have done so anyway.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/07/elon-musk-faces-a-15-billion...

That not withstanding though, what genuine act of philanthropy requires conducting a Twitter poll to ask strangers if you should donate to charity?