Can someone elaborate on the Ivanka aspect of NYT?

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1. There are some tax advantages to getting paid as a consultant instead of as an employee

One is to evade payroll taxes. Probably doesn't really apply in her case if she's maxed out on salary. But it's possible she gets a $1 salary and all her real money as a consultant.

More likely, she can deduct some expenses as a consultant that she couldn't as an employee, such as meals and travel to the work site.

I suspect that variants of taking business money for personal use and calling it a deductible business expense is rampant in the trump family.