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BlueToTheBone

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Sun May 13, 2012, 07:29 AM May 2012

Saverin gives up US citizenship to save on taxes [View all]

This guy is a real asshole. Can't bear the idea of paying taxes to the country that gave him the big bucks.

http://www.agi.it/english-version/world/elenco-notizie/201205130729-cro-ren1003-facebook_co_founder_gives_up_his_american_citizenship

(AGI) Washington - Brazilian-born Eduardo Saverin, the co-founder of Facebook, has given up his American citizenship.
Shortly after the quotation of the number one social network in the world on the stock exchange, Mark Zuckerberg's 30-year old Harvard marketing class-mate has decided to move to Singapore in order to gain some tax benefits. Saverin owns a 4% stake in Facebook and his shareholding could be worth up to 3.80 billion Dollars.

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