How much should TATF have paid out by now?
Answer: $11.8 million
Steve Brunner has stated that TATF has thus far paid out $850,000 in distributions to people who bought TATF trees. I thought it would be interesting to calculate, based on the projections on the TATF website, and the number of trees planted per year, which can be found from the tree owners news (also on the TATF website), how much TATF should have paid out by now.
Assuming 80% of the trees planted from 1992 through 1999 (the last year from which it's reasonable to expect distributions by today) are teak trees, my calculation indicates TATF should have paid out $11.8 million to investors by today. This is almost fourteen times the amount TATF has actually paid out. TATF makes no projections for the non-teak trees, so it's not possible to include those trees in the calculation.
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