Tax Day Injustice: How Corporate CEOs Make More Than Govt
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FEATURING SARAH ANDERSON - As Americans prepare their tax returns ahead of the IRS’s annual filing deadline, a new report highlights just how much large corporate CEO pay packages rival corporate taxes. Examining the five year period of 2018 to 2022, the Institute for Policy Studies, together with Americans for Tax Fairness cataloged 35 companies that paid their top executives more than they paid the federal government. This is thanks in large part to the 2017 Republican-led American Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.