Dundee University students have taken a stand against the controversial ‘tampon tax’ which puts sanitary products in the same tax bracket as crocodile meat.
The university’s students association (DUSA) is now selling sanitary products without the VAT due to demand from students across campus.
The decision follows Westminster’s refusal to scrap the 5% tax on sanitary products, which classes them as ‘non-essential, luxury items’.
A successful motion to take a stance against the tax was passed in the Students Representation Council (SRC), put forward by DUSA’s deputy president Leia Farnan.
Delighted with the result, Leia said: “It was great to get the motion passed unanimously, and I am also pleased that the staff at DUSA were just as passionate about the issue.”
Currently sanitary products are in the same tax bracket as alcoholic jellies and crocodile meat.
