World's Richest Man: Tesla CEO Elon Musk's net worth is $302 million; See full list!

New Delhi: The wealth of Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla company, one of the world's richest people, is increasing day by day. Now he has become the only person in the world, whose position no one has reached till date.

Elon Musk's worth:

Last Thursday, Musk's net worth jumped by $ 9.79 billion, or Rs 73,210 crore. After this, Musk's net worth reached $ 302 billion. Musk has become the only person in the world to reach this place. With this, Tesla's market cap has also crossed one lakh dollars.

Musk's wealth is $100 billion more than the second richest person.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the second richest person in the world is Jeff Bezos of Amazon Company. His net worth has reached $ 199 billion, but the special thing is that despite this, Elon Musk's wealth is $ 100 billion more than Bezos. At the same time, Bernard Arnault is included in the list of the third richest person in the world. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is at number four.

World's Richest Person:

1. Elon Musk - $302 billion

2.Jeff Bezos - $199 billion

3. Bernard Arnault - $168 billion

4. Bill Gates - $135 billion

5. Larry Page - $129 billion

6. Sergey Brin - $125 billion

7. Mark Zuckerberg - $ 118 billion

8. Steve Ballmer - $ 116 billion

9. Larry Allison - $ 115 billion

10. Warney Buffett - $105 billion

A proposal to increase the tax on billionaires in America has also been presented in the Senate. Ron Wyden, chairman of the finance committee, who brought this, said that in addition to the highest income tax rate, a surcharge of 3 percent can be imposed on billionaires.

If this proposal is implemented, Bezos and Musk may have to pay about $100 billion in taxes in five years. Musk's wealth has increased by more than $122 billion this year. With this his net worth has increased to $292 billion. Bezos's net worth is a little over $196 billion.

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