California is hoping for another Google-effect like the one that happened in 2005, after the company’s IPO. From 2004 to 2005 the revenue from capital gains taxes in California shot up $14 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg, whose initial public stock offering in two weeks could value the company at $96 billion, will cut in the state for an estimated $189 million in cash, according to calculations from PrivCo, which researches private companies.
The federal government will be in the money too, collecting an estimated $714 million in federal income tax from Zuckerberg.
And that’s just the payout from Zuckerberg. The windfall for California from the rest of the IPO could net California hundreds of millions more.
…the IPO could pump nearly $2.5 billion into state coffers over the next five years.
via LA Times
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