After failing three times to get the Texas Legislature to repeal the “tampon tax,” activists appear poised to try a new tack – mounting a lawsuit to build...
A bill to remove sales tax from menstrual-care products failed in the past three sessions, prompting advocates to consider an expected lawsuit against Comptroller Glenn Hegar.
“The tampon tax is an added-on financial barrier” for low-income women already strapped for cash and in some cases unable to afford sanitary napkins, a phenomenon known as “period poverty,” explained Sahar Punjwani. In February, the comptroller’s office denied Punjwani’s April 2021 demand for a $1.78 refund of Texas, city of Houston and Houston MTA sales taxes. She paid them while buying $21.63 worth of tampons, panty liners and sanitary pads at Doyle’s Pharmacy in Houston, according to the claim assembled by, a 182-year-old Houston firm whose lineage includes the great-grandfather of former Secretary of State James A. Baker III.
Similar lawsuits have helped prod a mix of red and blue states to remove consumption taxes on feminine hygiene products, according to Jennifer Weiss-Wolf and Laura Strausfeld, cofounders ofTexas is the most populous of the 27 states that continue to apply sales tax to menstrual-care products, Weiss-Wolf noted.Since 2016, 14 states have repealed their tampon taxes, Weiss-Wolf said.
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