India Finally Gets Rid Of Its Massive Tax on Sanitary Pads
LatestIndia has done away with a ridiculous 12 percent tax on sanitary pads, which activists say will hopefully result in more girls getting to go to school instead of being forced to stay home due to lack of access to feminine hygiene products.
According to CNN, the pad tax was added last year as part of the country’s newly implemented goods and services tax, which aimed to bring India’s 29 states under a single unified system. Items like contraceptives were exempt, but pads, for some reason, have been taxed at an insane 12 percent since last July. That exorbitant rate was one of the top factors that led girls to drop out of school, since estimates show that four out of five women and girls couldn’t access feminine hygiene products.