Once again, it’s time for the annual Institute for Policy Studies report on which top CEOs are earning more money than the companies they work for are paying out to federal government in taxes.

“Our nation’s tax code has become a powerful enabler of bloated CEO pay,” writes the IPS [PDF]. “Some tax rules on the books today essentially encourage corporations to compensate their executives at unconscionably higher multiples of what their average workers are paid.”

Many of the companies on the list are household names (AT&T, Motorola, Ford, AIG, Travelers), while others are not on the tip of most people’s tongues.

Of the 26 companies on the list, seven were on last year’s list of 25 CEOs — Boeing, Motorola Mobility, Motorola Systems, Chesapeake Energy, Ford, Marsh & McLennan, and International Paper.

This year’s crop of CEOs averaged $20.4 million in total compensation, a 23% percent increase over the average for last year’s batch of top executives.

Meanwhile, the companies they worked for received an average of a $163 million tax refund from the federal government. Only a handful of businesses paid any federal taxes in 2011.

“The four most direct tax subsidies for excessive executive pay cost taxpayers an estimated $14.4 billion per year — $46 for every American man, woman, and child,” writes the IPS. “That amount could also cover the annual cost of hiring 211,732 elementary-school teachers or creating 241,593 clean-energy jobs.”

Well, we know why y’all came here… to look at the list:

Abbott Laboratories
Miles D. White
$19,001,766
$586 million tax refund

Advanced Micro Devices
Rory P. Read
$15,610,351
$3 million tax refund

Altera
John P. Daane
$29,576,725
$22 million paid in taxes

AIG
Robert H. Benmosche
$13,955,605
$208 million tax refund

Anadarko Petroleum
James T. Hackett
$19,489,285
$381 million tax refund

AT&T
Randall L. Stephenson
$18,690,824
$420 million tax refund

Boeing
W. James McNerney Jr.
$18,403,303
$605 million tax refund

Broadcom
Scott A. McGregor
$16,076,291
$0 taxes paid

Chesapeake Energy
Aubrey Kerr McClendon
$17,868,076
$13 million paid in taxes

Citigroup
Vikram S. Pandit
$14,857,103
$144 million tax refund

Cooper Industries
Kirk S. Hachigian
$21,116,678
$29 million tax refund

Danaher
H. Lawrence Culp Jr.
$21,650,117
$6 million tax refund

Devon Energy
John Richels
$13,875,668
$143 million tax refund

FirstEnergy
Anthony J. Alexander
$14,413,389
$243 million tax refund

Ford Motor
Alan Mulally
$29,497,572
$4 million tax refund

Halliburton
David J. Lesar
$15,839,378
$1.026 billion tax refund

International Paper
John V. Faraci
$13,907,447
$78 million tax refund

Leucadia National
Ian Cumming
$28,177,211
$0 paid in taxes

Marathon Oil
Clarence P. Cazalot Jr.
$29,911,662 239
$210 million tax refund

Marsh & McLennan
Brian Duperreault
$14,285,946
$7 million paid in taxes

Motorola Mobility
Sanjay K. Jha
$47,152,687
$0 paid in taxes

Motorola Solutions
Gregory Q. Brown
$29,313,864
$2 million paid in taxes

Newell Rubbermaid
Michael B. Polk
$18,872,706
$37 million tax refund

Salesforce.com
Marc R. Benioff
$17,714,306
$9 million paid in taxes

Travelers Companies
Jay S. Fishman
$15,837,099
$176 million tax refund

Tyco International
Edward D. Breen
$16,499,622
$4 million tax refund

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