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 other Multinationals 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 former financial industry insiders now free to speak out, 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.
