Rejected petition Aboilsh tax on menstual sanitary products.

Remove the tax on essential menstrual products especially considering they are not considered essential during the pandemic.

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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 have announced that VAT will be abolished from January. You can read more here:

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn01128/

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Date submitted 27 October 2020
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