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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s botched IPO slices California&#8217;s budget by $600M</title>
		<link>http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/17/facebook-ipo-burns-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ricardo Bilton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Facebook's IPO was so messy that it's forced California to revise its budget estimates --&#160;downwards.</p>
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<p>Facebook&#8217;s lackluster IPO didn&#8217;t just burn Facebook and its investors, it burned California as well.</p>
<p>California Governor Jerry Brown expected his state to pull in $1.9 billion from the Facebook IPO, but revised estimates cut that number by a third to $1.3 billion, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324734904578244101957328988.html?mod=WSJ_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond" target="_blank">reports The Wall Street Journal</a>.</p>
<p>While Facebook launched at $48 a share, the stock dropped off a cliff almost immediately afterwards. That sluggish performance meant lower earnings for the company&#8217;s investors, including holders of restricted stock. This, in turn, meant less tax revenue for California.</p>
<p>As the Wall Street Journal points out, IPOs are a big, big deal for California, which gets a lot of its revenue from taxes on capital gains on assets like stocks.</p>
<p>Fortunately for the state, <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/09/facebook-stock/">Facebook&#8217;s stock has recovered somewhat in recent weeks</a>, which means that there&#8217;s not much preventing California from revising its revenue estimates once again to reflect the positive developments.</p>
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		<title>Backfire: Dropping U.S. citizenship could cost Facebook co-founder Saverin $43M</title>
		<link>http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/04/backfire-dropping-u-s-citizenship-could-cost-facebook-co-founder-saverin-43m/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody Barbierri</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Talk about a backfire. Controversial Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who recently renounced his U.S. citizenship and came under fire for supposedly skipping out on U.S. taxes, might actually end up owing more money &#8212; an estimated $43 million.</p>
<p>Back in&#160;&#8230;</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/04/backfire-dropping-u-s-citizenship-could-cost-facebook-co-founder-saverin-43m/shutterstock_80010928/" rel="attachment wp-att-466733"><img class="alignnone  wp-image-466733" title="shutterstock_80010928" src="http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/shutterstock_80010928.jpg?w=600&#038;h=400" alt="" width="600" height="400" /></a>Talk about a backfire. Controversial Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who recently <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/11/saverin-citizenship/" target="_blank">renounced</a> his U.S. citizenship and came under fire for supposedly skipping out on U.S. taxes, might actually end up owing more money &#8212; an estimated $43 million.</p>
<p>Back in September 2011, Saverin decided to renounce his  U.S. citizenship for permanent residence in Singapore, which has no capital gains tax. It was said that Saverin would save upwards of <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/16/saverin-citizenship-taxes/" target="_blank">$100 million</a> in U.S. taxes because of the move.</p>
<p>According to PrivCo, a data analysis firm that ran a bunch of <a href="http://www.privco.com/eduardo-saverins-renouncing-citizenship-backfires-actually-raised-his-tax-bill-ultimate-karmic-justice-zuckerberg-also-to-overpay-on-own-taxes-due-to-ill-timed-stock-option-exercise" target="_blank" target="_blank">potential estimates</a>, the $100 million Saverin would have saved was based on a fixed cost-per-share of around $30.  Since the Facebook share price has since dropped, it is estimated Saverin will owe the U.S. Treasury for every dollar below that fixed cost. With Facebook hovering around <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/01/facebook-stock-week-two/" target="_blank">$27 per share</a>, down nearly 30% in two weeks, he could owe around $43 million. If that share price goes up past the $30 mark, then the taxes owed changes. The calculation only applies to where the share price current sits.</p>
<p>Saverin has been bashed by the American media for skipping out on his obligations to Uncle Sam as soon as <a href="http://venturebeat.com/tag/facebook-ipo/" target="_blank">Facebook went public</a>, but he <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/technology/a-facebook-cofounder-reflects-on-the-path-forward.html?_r=2" target="_blank" target="_blank">countered</a> that he had filed the citizenship paperwork back in January 2011 and only just got approved in September.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that Saverin hasn&#8217;t exactly taken all of his money and run. He&#8217;s been active in the startup ecosystem as an investor and has put money into <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/eduardo-saverin" target="_blank" target="_blank">several startups</a>, including Jumio, ShopSavvy, Qwiki, and CrowdMob.</p>
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