The Federal youth representation, and strawberry week, calling for the reduction of the tampon tax

Organisations want tax reduction from 20 to 10 percent on a monthly hygiene article

Vienna (OTS) – on the Occasion of the upcoming International day for women’s rights, the Federal youth representative Council (BJV), and the platform reference strawberry week on the tax rate of 20 per cent on a monthly hygiene products in Austria. „Tampons and pads are a necessity and are part of the everyday lives of girls and women. They are also products of daily need like food or books. It can’t be, that this – even caviar are considered with the reduced tax rate of 10%, while women have to pay for your monthly bleeding to the twice as high tax rate of 20%. This imbalance must end!“, BJV chair, Martina Tiwald. „Other countries – most recently India – have reduced the tax long or abolished. The same we ask of the Austrian legislator!“ added Annemarie Harant, Co-founder of the strawberry week.

Appeal to reduce the „tampon tax“

Already in 2017, the strawberry week, together with the platform getting up.at] (https://www.aufstehn.at/) call for the reduction of the so-called „tampon tax“ will be started. At that time, over 8,000 people had signed it. However, before the [signature list]
(https://actions.aufstehn.at/runter-mit-der-tampon-steuer) to the
Government could be passed, new elections were held. „Now, we want our appeal, together with the BJV resurgence and more people to motivate them against the pads expensive to get up,“ says Harant. The BAJ launched at the beginning of the week, a video call [Social Media]
(https://www.facebook.com/bjvpage/?eid=ARDNUoWgMF8IaOy_gTWIrZUVbqwctk
Ywi_ywzYqULxI0g_goEdIz5o0c1RSyLRx2zyy3akfnkcknfcyu), in order to make aware of the issue. Support the BJV learned of the political representatives of the parties (ÖVP, SPÖ, JUNOS and NOW).

Menstrual education in schools anchor

The BJV, and the strawberry week also for the anchoring of the topic of Menstruation in schools. According to a [survey of the strawberry week]
(https://meineregelmeinplanet.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/1-umfrage-zu-m
enstruation-among-young-shows-guys-is-the-subject-embarrassing-and -girl-know-not-over-your-body-know/) among the 1,100 Austrian young people, 17 percent of girls and 34 percent of boys do not know the meaning of Menstruation. 60 percent of girls have a negative attitude to Menstruation and 70 per cent of the boys find the topic unimportant or embarrassing. „Menstruation may not be a taboo subject. Children and young people should be taught in school, quite normal to deal with the issue. The more important it is to start the topic in schools anchoring and early awareness raising and education,“ said Martina Tiwald. „This is why we have developed the digital learning platform, READY FOR RED ([www.readyforred.at] (http://www.readyforred.at)), with the adolescents in a playful and age-appropriate everything there is to know about the important topic of Menstruation learning. For schools the opportunity, the platform, free of charge, in the classroom, there is currently even,“ says Harant finally.

Related Links:

[Open letter to the strawberry week, Finance Minister Schelling from 2016]
(https://meineregelmeinplanet.wordpress.com/2016/01/21/runter-mit-der-tamponsteuer/)

[VAT of various product groups]
(https://www.wko.at/service/steuern/Die_wichtigsten_Anwendungsfaelle_
fuer_die_ermaessigten_Ums.html)

Federal youth representation
Anna Pranic
Public relations
01 214 44 99 – 15 // 0676 880 11 1141
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