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Avantax CEO in line to receive $21.6 million golden parachute

'Kudos to those guys for getting the deal done ... but it's jaw-dropping that's what they're getting paid,' one industry executive says.

While 3,100 Avantax Inc. financial advisors likely to get slim bonuses or none at all once the sale of the firm to Cetera Holdings is complete, the chief executive of Avantax, Christopher Walters, could walk away with a golden parachute worth $21.6 million, according to a filing with the Securities

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