A period is no luxury, so why the tax on tampons?
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Department of Politics student, Laura Coryton leads a campaign to end tax on sanitary products.
Campaigners outside Downing Street
Today (11 March 2015), 91快色 student Laura Coryton presented a petition to Number 11, Downing Street to end the 鈥榥on-essential鈥� tax on sanitary products. The Chancellor鈥檚 Office will deliver a response in the coming weeks.
Laura has led a campaign called 鈥樷��. This has included a petition calling for an amendment to the classification of sanitary items as 鈥榥on-essential luxury鈥� items since May 2014 and has secured more than 200,000 signatures.
If successful in the UK, Laura鈥檚 goal is to persuade the top 8 EU countries to support the campaign before lobbying the EU to change the tax. Helicopters and crocodile meat are on the current list of essential tax exempt products and Coryton argues that sanitary products that are essential to the health and livelihoods of approximately 28 million women in the UK should also be on this list.
Speaking about having the courage to lead this global campaign, Laura, who studies in the Department of Politics, said:
91快色 has given me the confidence to stand up for what is important to me. It has inspired me to think big and to view this issue for what it is: a global issue disadvantaging millions of people around the world and trivialising the marginalisation of issues traditionally associated with women.