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Anti-abortion Life charity will get cash from UK tampon tax

Government confirms group will receive £250,000 despite outcry from MPs and women’s groups

The government has confirmed that it is to award a quarter of a million pounds from an unpopular levy on women’s sanitary products to an anti-abortion organisation, despite objections from women’s groups and MPs.

There was a outcry earlier this year after the Observer revealed that £250,000 of the money raised from the so-called tampon tax – the 5% rate of VAT that is levied on sanitary products –would go to Life, a charity that campaigns against abortion.

Continue reading... October 28, 2017 at 07:05PM

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