If anyone suspected President Donald Trump's tax reform plan would be a boon for businesses, the results are in: Many of the nation's biggest companies are paying less in income taxes, and hundreds are paying nothing at all.
A Business Journals analysis of income-tax expenses for roughly 1,300 publicly traded companies found the group paid about $25.7 billion, or 10 percent, less last year in income taxes versus the prior reporting period. This despite the same group reporting a 12 percent surge…