Tampon Tax
- NewsCosmo
Free sanitary products will be available in secondary schools in a bid to end period poverty
Currently, 1 in 10 girls and women are unable to afford them.
- NewsYahoo Life UK
Our tampon tax is funding an anti-abortion charity
£250,000 will be given to the controversial charity, which has recently seen backlash for scaremongering and spreading inaccurate information about abortions.
- NewsYahoo Life UK
Tesco becomes first retailer to scrap Tampon Tax by covering cost for customers
Having a period isn't a luxury!
- NewsKate Solomon
Could This Be The End Of The Tampon Tax? Ministers Agree To Lobby EU Bigwigs
The British government will finally lobby the EU to do away with the 5% VAT currently levied on sanitary products, a penalty that is being called ‘Vagina Added Tax’. Women pay 5% VAT on tampons and sanitary items since the last Labour government cut the rate from 17.5% to 5%. The government says it can’t get rid of the tax altogether because the current EU rules do not allow it. Campaigners have been lobbying for the abolition of the Tampon Tax, which sees sanitary products taxed as ‘luxury i