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article US · 1 January 2026

'Too many digits': Elon Musk says he paid so much in taxes one year that it broke the IRS computer

Reports Elon Musk's claim on X that the tax he paid in a single year was so large it broke the IRS computer — "too many digits" — and that the agency had to update its software to process the payment. The figure was not independently documented.

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