The tax on Sanitary Napkins ..
The new Goods and Services Taxes reform billed as the most sweeping of the economic reforms in India (and in the world). It is an important aspect of integrating the states further into a single market has caught the imagination of many. (I hope this could pave way for an eventual single South Asian market too.) Though a lot of FAQ's , strategies and unabashed advertisement by Consultancy companies for providing advice on tax have been published across the media, there has been some considerable drivel as well. This post (and this ) has been widely shared, outraged upon. On the surface the non-Taxes on Sindur Vs taxes (at 12%) on Sanitary Napkins, does seem a fair case of giving, as the writer Binjal Shah says “The right to flaunt your religiousness is higher above the right to sport good genital health.” Indeed Sindur appearing in chapter 33 of the GST list is taxed lower than Saniraty Napkins appearing in chapter 96. However, on a deeper reading one realises th...
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