After nearly 100,000 people signed a petition demanding to “remove the unfair tampon tax,” some Australian officials are considering a policy change to exempt sanitary products from the country’s 10 percent “Goods and Services” tax (GST).In a statement released on Tuesday, Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey said that he mayask state and territory governments to remove the “tampon tax,” after the Treasury calculates exactly how much it will cost to lift the GST on women’s sanitary pads and tampons. Other health-related products — like condoms, sunscreen, and nicotine patches — are already exempt from the 10 percent tax.
Hockey’s concession came after a college student named Subeta Vimalarajah, whostarted the online petition on the subject, presented him with the hundreds of thousands of signatures that have been gathered so far.

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