Government says it has won EU backing for change in rules which imposed 5% VAT on women’s sanitary productsGeorge Osborne has announced that he will abolish the tampon tax the 5% VAT charged on women’s sanitary products after the prime minister raised the issue with his European partners at a summit in Brussels.
The chancellor had faced a potential rebellion over the issue,after an amendment tabled by the Labour MP for Dewsbury and Mirfield, Paula Sherriff, or won the backing of Eurosceptics keen to assert Britain’s power to set its own tax rates.
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Source: theguardian.com