Shoppers in Texas no longer have to pay a sales tax on menstrual products, making the state one of the few in the nation to eliminate the so-called “tampon tax.”
A new law that went into effect Friday eliminates the sales tax on feminine hygiene products including items like tampons, menstrual pads and menstrual cups.
In addition to menstrual products, the law, S.B. 379, also eliminates the sales tax on family care items including diapers, baby bottles, baby wipes, maternity clothing and breast milk pump products.
This is great - but is the “tampon tax” just “normal sales tax”?
Yep. But other medical products have been exempt the whole time.
Yes.
Yeah, but it sounds more like a special imposition placed on women for being women if we talk about the “tampon tax” instead of arguing about whether or not there should be special cutouts on sales tax for products used primarily or exclusively by women.
There are places with “luxury taxes” on some of those items
Usually only in places where that luxury tax rate is actually lower than the general sales tax. If you have a contrary example, I’m curious.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/08/europe/tampon-tax-germany-luxury-item-grm-intl/
Yes. Problem is it only affects 50% of the population.
It would be fair(er) if it taxed Viagra at the same rate.
lol why do idiots always say this? no one NEEDS to use viagra - ever. Can’t get it up? deal with it. But half of the population NEEDS menstrual products, or there will be blood everywhere and that’s a biohazard.
I get what you’re saying and agree, but damn that’s a “heavy flow” day.
Women dealt with this issue for thousands of years without it being a like a scene from Carrie.
Or condoms, except in many states condoms actually are subject to sales tax like most other goods. Prescription drugs in general aren’t subject to sales tax, which is why Viagra wasn’t, same as birth control pills, insulin, blood thinners, etc.
I don’t understand how that is a “problem”.