Pink Tax and the Law

Taylor & Francis

Pink Tax and the LawDiscriminating Against Women Consumers\nAuthor(s): Alara Efsun Yaz?c?o?lu\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138597297, 978-1138597297\nSynopsis\nThe emergence of the terms pink tax and tampon tax in everyday language suggests that women, who already suffer from an economic disadvantage due to the gender wage gap, are put in an even more detrimental position by means of discriminatory consumption taxes. This book is the first conducting a legal analysis to establish to what extent this public perception is accurate.\n\nDoes the practice of pink tax effectively amount to a tax in the legal sense? Does the so-called tampon tax genuinely constitute an anomaly within the general consumption tax system? Most importantly, can these two taxes be legally qualified as discriminatory? \n\nThis book provides scientific answers to these questions. It first cuts through the existent information clutter by el.