Meta首席执行官马克·扎克伯格(Mark Zuckerberg)同意在硅谷继续居住8年，如果加利福尼亚州选民下个月批准有争议的投票措施，根据公司监管存档发布星期三，这有可能让自己面临数十亿美元的一次性税收。
在9月9日与Meta董事会成员的晚餐中，扎克伯格告知他们，他正考虑因这项措施而离开加利福尼亚州，被称为Proposition 40，他计划四天后列出他的加州帕洛阿尔托的家出售，109页的备案声明。 选票提案即使选民批准也会受到诉讼，它要求从2026年1月起对该州亿万富翁持有的股票和其他资产征收5%的一次性税。
包括Zuckerberg在内的许多富裕个人目前避免大量纳税，他们用自己的股份借款，工资低——Meta CEO每年1美元。 扎克伯格今年2月在佛罗里达州购买了一所住宅，当时的"华尔街日报"报道了这所房子。
他潜在的跨国举动涉及董事会的一个特别委员会，其成员包括律师罗伯特·金米特，风险投资家查理·松赫斯特，以及DoorDashCEO托尼·许。 " 特别委员会注意到该公司在COVID-19大流行期间所面临的困难，当时Zuckerberg不能在公司的管理团队中实际在场，而且不希望公司面临类似的挑战。 " 根据星期三的备案。
在Meta板餐后数日内，特别委员会和扎克伯格达成了一项协议，将他出售特殊公司股份的能力与他在加州的继续居住联系起来。 一周前完成，周三，Meta 宣布细节。 它计划建立一个没有投票权的新类型的股份。 出售这些股票可能会有助于为Meta昂贵的AI数据中心投资筹集资金，而不会削弱Zuckerberg现有的投票控制。
所有现有股东将按其现有持股比例自动获得新的无表决权股权。 根据Meta所称的与Zuckerberg的“Founder According Agreement”协议，他可以出售20%的新股，以帮助支付他可能欠下的任何税。 只要他留在加利福尼亚，其余的80%将在未来八年中以块的形式出售。 任何提前出售这些股票的企图都要求卸载他的一些有投票权的股份，“除非有无法预见的重大情况使Zuckerberg在其他地方居住是谨慎的或可取的。”
协议规定Zuckerberg只需留在Meta总部所在地，近年来许多加州公司纷纷前往德克萨斯州，内华达州和加利福尼亚州。 Google联合创始人谢尔盖·布林(Sergey Brin)和拉里·佩吉(Larry Page)是少数被广泛认为因潜在税退出加州的亿万富翁之一。
但随着大部分最先锋的AI开发发生在硅谷，离开门洛公园城市可能是Meta板胃的艰难提议。 “目标是让Zuckerberg继续从加利福尼亚州领导该公司，并靠近Meta超级智能实验室，”该档案称，它提到最近Muse AI模型背后的公司单位。
最终，这项工作可能毫无结果。 加州最近的民意调查表明，用约1.29亿美元进行反对Prop 40的竞选活动，将无法赢得足够的选票。
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to keep living in Silicon Valley for eight years, potentially exposing himself to billions of dollars in one-time taxes if California voters approve a contentious ballot measure next month, according to a company regulatory filing released Wednesday.
During a dinner with Meta board members on September 9, Zuckerberg informed them that he was considering leaving California because of the measure, known as Proposition 40, and that he planned to list his Palo Alto, California home for sale four days later, the 109-page filing stated. The ballot proposal, which could be subject to lawsuits even if voters approve it, calls for a one-time 5 percent tax on stock and other assets held by billionaires in the state as of January 2026.
Many wealthy individuals, including Zuckerberg, currently avoid significant tax payments by borrowing against their shares and taking low salaries—$1 annually in the Meta CEO’s case. Zuckerberg purchased a home in Florida this past February, the Wall Street Journal reported at the time.
His potential cross-country move concerned a special committee of the board, whose members included attorney Robert Kimmitt, venture capitalist Charlie Songhurst, and DoorDash CEO Tony Xu. “The special committee was mindful about the difficulties the company faced during the COVID-19 pandemic when Zuckerberg could not be physically present with the company’s management team and did not want the company to face similar challenges going forward,” according to Wednesday’s filing.
Within days of the Meta board dinner, the special committee and Zuckerberg reached an agreement that links his ability to sell special company shares to his continued residence in California. It was finalized a week ago, and on Wednesday, Meta announced the details. It plans to create a new class of shares that hold no voting power. Selling these shares could potentially help raise funds for Meta’s expensive investments into AI data centers, without diluting Zuckerberg’s existing voting control.
All existing shareholders will receive the new nonvoting shares automatically in proportion to their existing holdings. Under what Meta called a “Founder Alignment Agreement” with Zuckerberg, he can sell 20 percent of those new shares to help pay any taxes he may owe. The remaining 80 percent would be available for sale in chunks over the next eight years as long as he remains in California. Any attempt to sell them early would require offloading some of his voting shares “unless there are material unforeseen circumstances that would render it prudent or advisable for Zuckerberg to reside elsewhere.”
Notably, the agreement specifies that Zuckerberg merely has to remain wherever Meta maintains its headquarters, so it’s possible that both he and the company could move together to another state. Many California companies left for Texas, Nevada, and California in recent years. Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are among the handful of billionaires widely believed to have exited California over the potential tax.
But with much of the most pioneering AI development happening in Silicon Valley, leaving the city of Menlo Park could be a difficult proposition for the Meta board to stomach. “The goal is to keep Zuckerberg continuing to lead the company from California and in close proximity to Meta Superintelligence Labs,” the filing stated, referring to the company unit behind its recent Muse AI models.
In the end, the exercise may have been for naught. Recent polling in California suggests that with about $129 million spent campaigning against Prop 40, it will fail to muster enough votes.
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