A gaggle of female hygiene manufacturers together with August, Cora, LOLA, The Honey Pot, Rael, Here We Flo, Saalt and DIVA have joined forces to battle the “tampon tax.” These manufacturers collectively have fashioned The Tampon Tax Black Coalition in an effort to reimburse customers the gross sales tax imposed on female hygiene merchandise akin to tampons, pads and menstrual cups in 21 US states. Although some states exempt important merchandise akin to meals and medicines from being topic to gross sales tax, interval care merchandise are omitted citing their standing as nonessential items. Shoppers have lengthy argued that tax shouldn’t be levied on these merchandise.

The teams concerned within the coalition stated that patrons can declare gross sales tax reimbursements on their purchases by submitting their receipts to www.tampontaxback.com. The chief of the coalition, Nadya Okamoto, who can also be the co-founder of August, stated, “Text us a picture of your receipt and within 24 hours we will Venmo or Paypal you back the tampon tax you paid.” She additionally famous that every model will reimburse its clients. “August is coordinating this on the backend through a dedicated pool of funds from each brand,” Nadya added.

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Nadya additional famous that rather more must be achieved with a view to elevate public consciousness about this situation till interval merchandise are tax-free in each state. Earlier in September, Texas repealed the tax on female hygiene merchandise. Nadya asserts that menstrual merchandise ought to “fall into the category of medical necessities.” Her model, August, which she began as a direct-to-consumer interval care model in 2021, would not cost clients a gross sales tax on their purchases wherever attainable, in line with CNBC.

However, when August was launched at Target, Nadya was unable to supervise the purpose of buy, shedding the power to cowl the gross sales tax for purchasers. Later she got here up with an answer, permitting clients to say reimbursement on their purchases by submitting their receipts to the corporate. This grew to become the mannequin for the coalition’s mission. Explaining the mission, Nadya stated, “A lot of what we are doing now as of May 2023 is saying, hey, we can’t control whether or not you are charged a sales tax but we can reimburse you for it because we don’t believe this tax is justified.”

“And now we can reimburse you for the August products you buy, and any other period care you get from any of the eight participating brands in the coalition,” she added whereas explaining how the coalition works with a view to battle the “tampon tax.” Giving clarification on the “tampon tax,” Katherine Loughead, senior coverage analyst with Tax Foundation, a analysis group primarily based in Washington, DC, stated, “The so-called tampon tax is just a sales tax that applies to most of the goods we buy.” She added, “What we are talking about here is sales tax. There is no state that levies any sort of product-specific excise tax on tampons. So the idea of a tampon tax is kind of a misnomer.”

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