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</html><description>WASHINGTON &ndash; Today, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., Chairman of the Senate&rsquo;s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, released new data compiled by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) showing that corporations who issued stock options to their executives claimed 2005 stock option tax deductions that were collectively $61 billion larger than the expenses shown on the company books [&hellip;]</description><thumbnail_url>https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/HSGAC_Logo_Social.jpg</thumbnail_url><thumbnail_width>1200</thumbnail_width><thumbnail_height>630</thumbnail_height></oembed>
