Tampon tax abolished from today

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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 (Felicia Willow)

www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/31/tampon-tax-government-axes-vat-on-sanitary-products

Alas, it’s being used as a pro-Brexit political football. Bernard Jenkin claimed last week in the HoC that it could only be done because of leaving the EU, which is of course nonsense. Ireland abolished VAT on sanitary products the year before last. In the EU.