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Tampon tax cut won’t stop votes flowing from Coalition

4 August 2018

10:38 AM

4 August 2018

10:38 AM

Treasurer Scott Morrison has bowed to the agitation of vocal feminists and the likes of GetUp! and is dropping GST from women’s sanitary products.

Talking to the Daily Telegraph this weekend, Morrison described a tampon tax as an ‘anomaly’ and blamed the states’ addiction to $30 million of revenue a year it raises as the reason it hasn’t been done before.

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