Tax Subsidies for CEO Pay

A tax loophole allows corporations to deduct from their taxable income any amount paid to CEOs and their executives, as long as the pay is “performance-based.” ...

Using tax policy to restrain CEO pay: Best practices and smart ...

Over the past decade, a number of proposals have been floated to introduce taxes that penalize firms with excessively high CEO pay.

Does the Tax Code Influence CEO Compensation? | NBER

Rose and Wolfram find that Section 162(m)'s limit on the deductibility of executive pay slowed salary growth and compressed executive salaries around the $1 ...

FACT SHEET: The President's Budget Cuts Taxes for Working ...

While corporations can choose to give huge pay packages to their executives, President Biden believes that they don't deserve a tax break when ...

Corporate Tax Breaks and Executive Compensation - Eric Ohrn

I analyze the effect of two corporate tax breaks, bonus depreciation and the Domestic Pro- duction Activities Deduction (DPAD), on executive compensation in ...

CEO Incentives—It's Not How Much You Pay, But How

On average, CEOs receive about 50% of their base pay in the form of bonuses. Yet these “bonuses” don't generate big fluctuations in CEO compensation. A ...

The Tax Code Does Not Subsidize CEO Pay - Tax Foundation

The article begins by making an incorrect claim: that the federal government does not tax performance-based CEO pay.

Taxpayer Subsidies for CEO Pay in the Fast Food Industry

These CEO pay subsidies are the result of a loophole that allows firms to deduct unlimited amounts from their income taxes for the cost of stock options, ...

Corporations That Pay Their Executives More Than Uncle Sam

CEO pay solutions · The 2017 Republican tax law slashed the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent and failed to close loopholes that ...

The impact of TCJA on CEO compensation - ScienceDirect.com

The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) expanded the impact of IRC Section 162(m) by disallowing a tax deduction for any compensation over $1 million paid to top ...

Taxes and executive compensation - Economic Policy Institute

Adopted in 1993, Section 162(m), which applies to publicly traded corporations, limits the deduction for executive compensation to $1 million ...

Reed & Blumenthal Renew Push to End Special Tax Deductions for ...

The Stop Subsidizing Multimillion Dollar Corporate Bonuses Act would put an end to a special tax break for huge executive bonuses.

New Report from Americans for Tax Fairness and Institute for Policy ...

Dozens of big profitable corporations paid their top executives more in compensation than they paid in federal income taxes over a recent five- ...

Yes, We Actually Can Do Something About CEO Pay - Inequality.org

This model applies graduated corporate tax rate increases starting with a 0.5 percentage point hike for companies that pay their top executives ...

Corporate Tax Breaks and Executive Compensation

Corporate Tax Breaks and Executive Compensation by Eric Ohrn. Published in volume 15, issue 3, pages 215-55 of American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, ...

The CEO Pay Problem and What We Can Do About It

Tax penalties would begin at 0.5 percentage points for companies that pay their top executives between 50 and 100 times more than their median ...

Dozens of big U.S. companies paid top executives more than they ...

She added, "The executive compensation system is really set up to incentivize executives to push for corporate tax cuts and take other measures ...

Biden's Budget Tax on Executive Compensation is an Imperfect ...

Skyrocketing executive pay has become an increasingly important indicator of income inequality and has prompted questions as to what policy ...

More for them, less for us: Corporate tax dodging and CEO pay are ...

Lavish executive compensation packages and skimpy corporate tax payments are not unrelated. Executives have a huge personal incentive to ...

CEO Bonus Loophole - CWA-Union.org

Eliminate taxpayer subsidies for excessive compensation. ... bring some fairness back to our tax code and stop the subsidizing of massive CEO pay packages.