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THE PRICE WE PAY

LE PRIX À PAYER

By Harold CROOKS

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Documentary - Completed 2014

The Price We Pay exposes how “offshore” tax havens and Google, Amazon and the other tech giants of the “cloud” economy are eroding the foundations of the democratic state. The Price We Pay is inspired by Brigitte Alepin’s book La crise fiscale qui vient.

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH
- Duration
- 93 mn
- Director(s)
- Harold CROOKS
- Writer(s)
- Brigitte ALEPIN, Harold CROOKS
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-C916-0000-O-0000-0000-2
- Producer(s)
- Nathalie BARTON (InformAction Films)
- Synopsis
- Smart, eye-opening and incendiary, The Price We Pay examines the timely issue of tax avoidance and exposes how tech giants like Google, Amazon and others of the "cloud" economy are stashing trillions of dollars offshore and thus depriving governments of hundreds of billions in corporate-tax revenue each year. This practice is (arguably) legal - but is it fair?
  
  Assembling interviews with leading economists and academics from around the world including Thomas Piketty, award-winning director Harold Crooks (Surviving Progress) blows the lid off the dirty world of corporate malfeasance.