{"id":8582,"date":"2016-03-19T02:58:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T19:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tampon-tax-scrapped-announces-osborne\/"},"modified":"2016-03-19T03:11:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T20:11:47","slug":"tampon-tax-scrapped-announces-osborne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tampon-tax-scrapped-announces-osborne\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampon tax scrapped, announces Osborne"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nChancellor claims he and David Cameron had persuaded EU partners to reach an agreement that made \u2018common sense on VAT\u2019over female hygiene productsGeorge Osborne has announced that he will abolish the tampon tax \u2013 the 5% VAT charged on women\u2019s sanitary products \u2013 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, won the backing of Eurosceptics keen to assert Britain\u2019s power to set its own tax rates. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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