State ‘Tampon Tax’ Repeals Gain Momentum by Adding Baby Essentials

March 20, 2023, 8:46 AM UTC

Lawmakers in about a dozen states are considering bills to eliminate the sales tax on menstrual products, which already has been repealed or doesn’t exist in a majority of states. Many of the latest efforts have widened their scope to include diapers and other products to draw in more support.

“Kill-the-tampon-tax” bills were filed this year in at least 13 of the 22 states that still have the tax. Measures with bipartisan support are pending in mostly Republican-led states—Texas, Georgia, Arizona, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Indiana—and in Hawaii, where a Democratic proposal (SB 241) has some GOP backing. ...

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