Posted on 01/01/2021 6:23:39 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products - referred to as the "tampon tax" - will be abolished in the UK from 1 January.
EU law required members to tax tampons and sanitary towels at 5%, treating period products as non-essential.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak committed to scrapping the tax in his March Budget.
Campaigners welcomed the end to what they called a "sexist tax" with activist Laura Coryton saying it was "about ending a symptom of sexism".
Ms Coryton, 27, who began campaigning to end the tampon tax when she was 21, told the BBC the move "challenged the negative message that this tax sent to society about women".
The move follows Scotland becoming the first in the world to make period products free in November.
Felicia Willow, chief executive of women's rights charity the Fawcett Society, agreed, saying: "It's been a long road to reach this point, but at last the sexist tax that saw sanitary products classed as non-essential, luxury items can be consigned to the history books."
The Treasury has estimated the move will save the average woman nearly £40 over her lifetime, with a cut of 7p on a pack of 20 tampons and 5p on 12 pads.
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Why is it sexist
According to the woke men use tampons too.
“Chancellor Rishi Sunak...”
Great English name with a long history...
So no tax on Prince Charles anymore?
He’s a douche, not a tampon.
I thought taxes were an opportunity to invest in infrastructure
There should be a tax on tampons to cover plumbing problems.
We’re living in an asylum.
How about periodical literature? Is that now tax-free too?
Its not really blood..I say tampons should come in ethnic skin colors to eliminate a racist tampon being used
The UK, especially England is a Gynocracy.
Only middle aged white men should be taxed!
Bloody well right chap.
Great! When do they end the tax on shaving cream and razors?
Tax free for the gals for their mess pads but I still have to pay sales tax on my stick-on pee pads because my urologist botched my prostate surgery and made me Mr. Leaky.
Does anyone ask: Why the government is so money grubbing that they will stoop to taxing Tampons?
The Tampon Tax is to be replaces by the panty shield tax. Tampons are a necessity but but panty shields, not so much.
So in Scotland the products are free are they the name brand or generic brands
If there’s a Tampon tax, shouldn’t there be a Trojan tax?
That should cover it...
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