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Re:Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site by stonogo on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @06:56PM (#35063194)
He doesn't have to work. Twitter acquired his company and the payout was structured as salary for tax reasons. Musk firing him suddenly turned that opex into capex, for no other reason than Musk has no idea what is going on in a company he runs.
Re:Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site by msikora on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @07:02PM (#35076499)
But in this case the "tax reasons" was to maximize the tax: "In an agreement between him and Twitter, most of the purchase price was paid as salary to maximize the tax he would pay for the sale in Iceland. He chose to pay for tax out of respect to Iceland for the disability benefits he received."