Tampon tax is going to fund an awful UK anti-abortion org

Tampon tax is going to fund an awful UK anti-abortion org
‘Our own money being used to fund our discrimination’

29 October 2017
TextCharlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

There has been an outcry from feminists all over the UK after it was confirmed that anti-abortion charity Life will get £250,000 cash from the UK's tampon tax.

Tampon tax is used to refer to the fact that feminine hygiene products aren't given tax exemption status, meaning women pay a 5 percent tax on them.

Products that are regarded as “basic necessity” and given exemption status include edible sugar flowers, alcoholic jellies and exotic meats including crocodile and kangaroo.

Continued at source: http://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/37898/1/tampon-tax-is-going-to-fund-an-awful-uk-anti-abortion-org

29.10.2017

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UK: Anger as £250,000 of tampon tax funding goes to an anti-abortion charity

Anger as £250,000 of tampon tax funding goes to an anti-abortion charity
Anger has erupted at £250,000 of VAT on sanitary products being given to Life, which campaigns against abortion and offers a "positive alternative"

ByDan Bloom

2 APR 2017

Campaigners have voiced their anger after it emerged tax on tampons is helping fund an anti-abortion charity.

VAT on sanitary products worth £250,000 is being given to Life, which describes itself as "one of the country's largest and oldest pro-life organisations."

Its website's front page states: "Life has been speaking out against abortion and offering a positive alternative to it since 1970."

Continued at source: The Mirror: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/anger-250k-tampon-tax-funding-10143563

02.04.2017

UK: Anger as tampon tax is used to help fund anti-abortion group

Anger as tampon tax is used to help fund anti-abortion group
Women’s groups and politicians condemn £250,000 grant to Life charity from cash meant for disadvantaged women

Ben Quinn

Saturday 1 April 2017

A new row has broken out over the so-called tampon tax after it emerged that a quarter of a million pounds from a controversial levy on women’s sanitary products is to be given to an anti-abortion organisation.

Under pressure from campaigners after failing to honour a pledge to scrap the 5% VAT on sanitary products, former chancellor George Osborne said that more than £10m a year would be redistributed from the tax receipts to women’s charities.

Continued at source: The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/apr/01/tampon-tax-anti-abortion-group-anger

01.04.2017