VAT on sanitary products

[Angeldust2810]

On 1 January the govt stopped collecting VAT on all tampons and towels.

AIBU to assume the supermarkets will take the profit rather than pass the savings on to customers?

Having started a similar thread half an hour before you, you are being as unreasonable as I was as the big supermarkets have been bearing the costs of VAT on sanitary products themselves for a few years instead of passing them on to customers.

I remember Tesco cut their prices of tampons by 5%, so effectively paying the tax themselves?

The savings are tiny anyway, less than £1 per woman per year! The publicity this is getting is massively out of proportion to the impact it will have. But it's being touted as a Brexit win, so certain people are shouting it from the rooftops.

But it's being touted as a Brexit win, so certain people are shouting it from the rooftops.

Including Tory MPs who voted against a Labour amendment to remove it in 2015 and now swear blind that really they supported the idea, despite the fact that their vote not to is on record.