New York is likely dropping its “tampon tax”

MSN ^ | Hanna Kowlowska

[HomerBohn]

The New York state senate is poised to eliminate New Yorkers’ so-called “tampon tax.”

Feminine hygiene products are currently taxed as “luxury items” in New York, but a new bill could result in their reclassification as tax-exempt necessities, instead. The Republican-run senate passed the bill unanimously on Monday (April 11) after it had passed the state assembly in March, also with full support from lawmakers. The bill now goes to the state’s governor Andrew Cuomo, a father of three daughters, who has said in the past that the tax should be repealed.

“It is a way of providing some tax relief to women everywhere, young girls in particular,” senator Diane Savino said, according to Politico NY.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Score another win for Julia.

[GreenHornet]

“There should be no tampon tax. Period.”

I see what you did there.

Thank you, thank you!.....I'm here all week!

[JimRed]

I’ve always thought that making services nobody wants to use but everyone gets stuck with, like auto or appliance repairs, subject to sales tax was adding insult to injury.

[Larry Lucido]

It had people seeing red anyway.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Women, since the dawn of Time....It’s a 1st world ‘problem’, hence ‘luxury’.

Ok I am confused. Having menses is a luxury?

I suppose there might be an argument that it is one for the body as when a woman has been starved her body quits menstruating but without it the human race dies out so I would rate it as a necessity.