Reports: New TikTok investors to pay about $10 billion fee to U.S. Treasury
Mar 14th 2026
Multiple outlets report that new TikTok investors including Oracle and Silver Lake are expected to pay about $10 billion in transaction fees to the U.S. Treasury, with $2.5 billion already paid at closing.
- Wall Street Journal and New York Times report new investors will pay roughly $10 billion in transaction fees to the U.S. Treasury.
- Reports name Oracle and Silver Lake among the investors expected to provide the fee.
- About $2.5 billion was reportedly paid when the deal closed on January 22, with the remainder due in installments.
- The investor group paid about $14 billion for a majority stake in TikTok, making the reported fee roughly 70 percent of that deal value.
- The payment would follow other reported instances of government intervention in industry, including stakes or special terms involving Intel, US Steel and Nvidia.
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- Trump administration to be paid $10bn for brokering TikTok deal www.theguardian.com
- Trump administration is allegedly collecting $10 billion on the TikTok deal www.theverge.com