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The Price We Pay

(La Face cachée de l’impôt)

Year 2014
Runtime 93 mins
Language English, French
Subtitles Yes

Director Harold Crooks (SURVIVING PROGRESS) once again blows the lid off the dirty world of corporate malfeasance with this incendiary documentary about the dark history and dire present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harbouring profits in offshore havens.

This incendiary new documentary by Harold Crooks (who collaborated on THE CORPORATION and SURVIVING PROGRESS) explores the origins, damaging repercussions, and complex moral issues arising from corporate tax-dodging — specifically, the widespread use of tax havens by multinational corporations and the super-rich, which allows them to deprive governments of billions in corporate-tax revenue every year.

Tracing the increase in off-shoring of corporate assets to the City of London in the sixties and its dramatic rise under the Thatcher and Reagan administrations, THE PRICE WE PAY follows the thread through to the present, where tax avoidance has directly contributed to the dominance of the "one percent." A vital exposé of the flagrant ethical bankruptcy endemic to modern capitalism, THE PRICE WE PAY is a forceful and compelling call to action.

– Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)

Countries

Canada
Director
Harold Crooks