00:00Five countries where the discussion is about the tax impuesto.
00:03First, in Argentina, the movement feminist economy created the campaign
00:07NUMERAL MESTRU ACCIÓN 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 products of feminine hygiene
00:38were exentos in Canada.
00:40Before, they were recorded with the 5%,
00:42but they managed to remove the impuesto under the premise
00:45that they were of first need
00:46and they had an important economic value for the women during most of their lives.
00:50Third, in 2014, the movement of the Ciudadanos
00:54ejercieron pression to remove the 5% of those products in the U.S.
00:58considered non-essentials.
01:01In fact, it was a point of pressure against David Cameron's government in the day of Brexit.
01:06The debate about eliminating the IVA in these products continues.
01:10Fourth, in the U.S. 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,
01:21incluso garantiza el acceso gratuito a productos para la higiene femenina
01:26en escuelas públicas, albergues y cárceles.
01:29Quinto, menstruación libre de impuestos es el movimiento creado por el Grupo Género y Justicia Económica
01:34de la Red por la Justicia Tributaria.
01:36Y con el que se consiguió que el gravamen para las toallas higiénicas y los tampones en Colombia,
01:41que hasta el año pasado era del 16%, bajara a 11 puntos porcentuales.
01:45Es decir, quedó en 5%.
01:48No obstante, los promotores del movimiento buscan la eliminación total del impuesto.
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