In the latest Shareholder Letter of Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.A $BRKB, Warren Buffett touches on a very interesting fact which has remained a little big neglected by the general audience.

For the period between 2012-21 (more or less 10 years), Berkshire has paid $32 billion for federal income tax. This number is higher than the market cap of more than 50% of the publicly listed companies constituents in the S&P 500 $SPY (valuations as of today).

Also, to even better put this number into perspective by comparing it on a relative basis, a few well know companies have a similar market cap more or less equal to the sum paid from Berkshire on these taxes: