Offshore tax havens and the trillions in revenue governments lose to them are the subject of The Price We Pay, a 2023 American documentary examining corporate tax avoidance.
What is The Price We Pay about?
The film traces how multinational corporations shift profits into offshore financial centers, a practice that has denied governments trillions of dollars in tax revenue over decades. Rather than treating tax avoidance as an abstract accounting issue, the documentary lays out the mechanics of how profits move between jurisdictions and who benefits when they do. The featured lineup includes Emile Hirsch, Stephen Dorff, Gigi Zumbado, Tyler Sanders, Erika Ervin, Jesse Kinser, Sabina Mach and Vernon Wells, appearing across the film's roughly ninety-three-minute runtime as it moves from the history of offshore banking to its present-day scale.
About the cast
Emile Hirsch and Stephen Dorff head a lineup that also includes Gigi Zumbado, Tyler Sanders, Erika Ervin, Jesse Kinser, Sabina Mach and Vernon Wells, all featured across the film's exploration of the offshore tax system.
Context & significance
Directed by Ryûhei Kitamura, The Price We Pay was produced in the United States and released in 2023 under the Documentary and News genre pairing K-Time lists it under. It arrives amid a broader wave of financial-accountability documentaries made in the years following major leaks of offshore banking records, when public interest in how multinational profits are sheltered from taxation grew sharply. The film sits alongside other recent nonfiction work that treats corporate finance as a subject worth explaining plainly to a general audience rather than leaving it to specialists, using the featured lineup to walk through how the offshore system actually functions rather than simply asserting that it exists.
Watching The Price We Pay on Ktime
The Price We Pay is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, letting Farsi-speaking viewers follow a dense financial subject in their own language. A free K-Time account login is required to watch, though the film's page can be read without one. K-Time's Farsi-first design is built for Persian-speaking audiences abroad who want serious documentary work presented clearly, without needing to rely on subtitled English coverage of a topic this technical.