This Controversial Tax Benefit Means Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav Could Score a Payday of Over $800 Million

Excise tax gross-ups have grown less popular over the years, but Paramount’s winning acquisition bid now includes one.

BY BRIAN CONTRERAS, STAFF WRITER @_B_CONTRERAS_

David Zaslav. Illustration: Inc.; Photo: Getty Images

If everything lines up right in Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav could make over $800 million, a recent securities filing suggests.

That’s in large part thanks to a controversial contractual mechanism known........

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