There is no 5% luxury tax

A weird press release from a group claiming to represent Graduate Women:

Only pay taxes on the products they use to deal with menstruation. Sanitary products such as tampons are taxed as non-essential, luxury items at 5%. So are maternity pads.Only Women Bleed – and Loose out on Education Because of It!

First of all it is lose out. Secondly there is no 5% on so called luxury items.

Only women pay taxes on the products they use to deal with menstruation. Sanitary products such as tampons are taxed as non-essential, luxury items at 5%. So are maternity pads.

Yet some “luxury items” are tax exempt such as edible sugar flowers and alcoholic jellies – but not tampons!

Again is not the case in NZ. As far as can tell this is the case in the UK. It goes to show how sensible we are having a no exemptions clean GST.

But what a weird press release from this group. They put out a release condemning something which doesn't exist, and say they represent graduates!

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