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by ivewonyoung 30 days ago
> Looked it up and says it applies to Private companies only, so not Google. i.e. to stop those deliberately undervaluing.

That's not true. Private companies have a different valuation method, but public companies like Google are absolutely included.

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link to source? As think you are mistaken
from https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/state/california-weal...

  Under the initiative, “For any interests that confer voting or other direct control rights, the percentage of the business entity owned by the taxpayer shall be presumed to be not less than the taxpayer’s percentage of the overall voting or other direct control rights.”

  ...Together, for instance, Larry Page and Sergey Brin own about 11.3 percent of Alphabet (Google) but control 52.3 percent of voting rights. Similarly, Mark Zuckerberg owns about 13.6 percent of Meta but has 61.0 percent voting control.