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Sanitary Protection: VAT

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Question for HM Treasury

UIN 16882, tabled on 18 November 2015

Question

Alison Thewliss
Scottish National Party
Glasgow Central
Commons

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent discussions he has had with the European Commission on the abolition of Value Added Tax on sanitary products.

Answer

Mr David Gauke
Conservative
South West Hertfordshire
Commons

Answered on

26 November 2015

Following the recent Parliamentary debate on this issue, I have written to the European Commission and other Member States setting out the Government’s view that Member States should have full discretion over what rate of VAT they can apply to sanitary products, and that this should be considered in the context of the Commission’s ambition to produce an Action Plan on VAT initiatives in 2016.

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