00:00Five countries where the discussion is about the impuesto tampons.
00:03First, in Argentina, the movement feminist feminist movement
00:06created the campaign number Mestru Accion, during the March of 8M.
00:11With the sorority, they managed to collect menstrual products,
00:14towels, tampons, and menstruals for those who didn't have to buy them.
00:19But the campaign caused so much fun that, in just two months,
00:22entered the political agenda of Buenos Aires with six law projects
00:25that have as a goal to declare those products as a first need
00:29and that they don't have to pay IVA.
00:31Second, in July 2015, the tampons, the menstrual, the compresas
00:36and other women's higiene feminine products were exentos in Canada.
00:40Before they were recorded with the 5%, but they managed to remove the impuesto
00:44under the premise that they were of first need
00:46and they had an important economic value for the women during a large part of their life.
00:50Third, in 2014, the movement of the Ciudadanos
00:54ejercieron pression to remove the 5% of those products in the United States,
00:58considered not essential.
01:01In fact, it was a point of pressure against David Cameron's government on the basis of Brexit.
01:06The debate about eliminating the IVA in these products continues.
01:10Fourth, in the United States, only are exentos of the impuesto in states like
01:14Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania.
01:17Desde 2016, New York no solo quitó el impuesto, incluso garantiza el acceso gratuito a productos
01:24para la higiene femenina en escuelas públicas, albergues y cárceles.
01:29Quinto, menstruación libre de impuestos es el movimiento creado por el Grupo Género y Justicia
01:34Económica de la Red por la Justicia Tributaria y con el que se consiguió que el gravamen
01:38para las toallas higiénicas y los tampones en Colombia, que hasta el año pasado era
01:42del 16%, bajara a 11 puntos porcentuales. Es decir, quedó en 5%. No obstante, los promotores
01:49del movimiento buscan la eliminación total del impuesto.
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