elon musk continued to sell his tesla inc shares tuesday selling another 934000 shares for about 105 billion according to filings with the securities and exchange commission musk made the sales after exercising options to buy 215 million shares in all musk has sold about 92 million shares worth about 985 billion since nov 8 a day after musk’s twitter poll decided he should sell 10 of his tesla stake some of the stock sales had been put into motion well before the poll was posted assuming musk intends to sell 10 of his shares he’s more than halfway there before the sales began his 10 stake amounted to about 17 million shares so after tuesday’s sales he has about 79 million shares to go the wall street journal reported tuesday that musk faced a 35 billion tax bill on his options which would have been bigger is tesla stock hadn’t plunged after he tweeted his plans to sell saving him about 480 million according to wsj calculations barron’s on tuesday estimated that at his current pace musk’s selloff will be done in another four weeks tesla stock tsla has dropped about 9 since his twitter poll nov 8 still the electricvehicle maker’s shares are up 57 year to date and up about 100 over the past 12 months