The Price We Pay

How offshore havens are killing our middle class.

6.4

|2014|93 min

A documentary on the history and present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harboring profits in offshore havens.

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