Allan Sloan is an editor-at-large at ProPublica and a seven-time winner of the Loeb Award, business journalism's highest honor.
Donald Trump's supporters crowed when leaked pages of his 2005 return showed he paid a hefty amount of taxes. But the returns for the following years, which remain secret, likely include some hefty refunds of that payment.
Companies are increasingly using pay-for-performance to get around a $1 million federal limit on tax deductions for executive compensation.
A while back, Congress voted to curb soaring compensation for corporate officers by limiting tax deductions. Here's how it went wrong.
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