Economy Congress asks to lower VAT on feminine intimate hygiene products
Labor Irene Montero prevails and there will be a sick leave due to a painful rule paid by the State "from the first day"
The Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, explained this Monday that the Ministry of Finance, led by her partner María Jesús Montero, has vetoed the new abortion law that the Council of Ministers will approve tomorrow, lowering the super-reduced VAT for menstrual products and has postponed to the negotiation of the next General State Budgets for 2023.
Montero lamented that the lowering of the cost of these products through the application of a super-reduced VAT of 4% compared to the 21% that is applied now "is pending" but he guaranteed that "we are going to fight it" so that this legislature is held.
"Let no one have any doubts,"
he said in an interview with
Cadena Ser
collected by Servimedia.
The minister asserted that it is especially necessary to lower VAT on menstrual products because many women "who live in a situation of vulnerability or in adolescence" sometimes do not have the capacity to purchase these products or choose the brand they want, so she believes that
it is necessary to "distribute for free" in some cases and places such as educational centers.
Montero also announced that the new abortion law that the Council of Ministers is going to approve contemplates that pregnant women have
medical leave from the 39th week of pregnancy
, although she proposed that it be "from 36".
She indicated that by agreeing on the reform with the rest of the PSOE ministers, this discharge has been delayed until week 39, something that "many women already have de facto" when the last week of pregnancy arrives, since it is necessary to go "preparing for childbirth" both physically and mentally.
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