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The Price We Pay

  • Documentary

September 5, 2014 (CA)

1h 33m

How offshore havens are killing our middle class.

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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