La Presse – The price we pay

Tax evasion has never been told. Brigitte Alepin, Le Prix à Payer | The Price we pay is a striking presentation of the founding myths and unsuspected consequences of the relocation of corporate profits. At the same time, it was necessary to compete with large multinationals, tax evasion helped to consolidate the monopoly of industrial empires in a shrinking global economy, and to bring out the creation and redistribution of wealth, thus accelerating the dissolution of the social contract inherited from the French Revolution. Fortunately, counter-powers such as those of Cooperation and Economic Development (OECD) and Transparency International are multiplying under the impetus of the defectors of the International Financial Principality, erosion of fronts of fiscal digital by new order. From Ireland to the British Isles, Delaware, Switzerland and Singapore, Harold Crooks (Surviving Progress) completes a new studious and devastating investigation into the inevitable bankruptcy of a postcolonial combination confronted with its own collapse, in which absence of new virtuous circles in the citizens who earn the payer their “fair share” in their turn. – Charles Stéphane Roy