Buffett said that Berkshire shareholders had expressed "enthusiasm" for the "save-and-build philosophy.".
Although the tax period covered in the ProPublica article only went as far as 2018, Buffett said that Berkshire Hathaway had paid a significant amount of income taxes for the year 2019 and 2020, accounting for around 1.5 percent of the U.S.In addition to Buffett, the ProPublica article found that billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Michael Bloomberg had also paid miniscule tax rates between 2014 and 2018Bezos reportedly paid no federal income taxes at all in 2007 and 2011, while Musk paid none in 2018