Submitted on Tuesday 27th October 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: already-happening (see below for details)
Aboilsh tax on menstual sanitary products.
Remove the tax on essential menstrual products especially considering they are not considered essential during the pandemic.
The tampon tax fundamentally is flawed. The idea that menstruating bodies are considered non-essential by the government in frankly disgusting. A helicopter is considered an essential, however a sanitary product for an uncontrolled human function is a luxury. There is nothing luxurious about menstrual hygine. During the Covid-19 pandemic with shops only selling essential items, any person to menstruate has been denied any right to purchase vital items. This flawed taxing must be stopped.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The Government have announced that VAT will be abolished from January. You can read more here:
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn01128/
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