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  Finance Bill - Clause 125 - VAT: Womenâs Sanitary Products
  
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  @ MP voted aye voted to exempt women's sanitary products from VAT as of the 1st of April 2018, rather than allowing Treasury ministers to determine if, and when, a zero-rating would come into force.
  
  @ MP voted no voted not to exempt women's sanitary products from VAT as of the 1st of April 2018, deciding instead to let Treasury ministers determine if, and when, a zero-rating would come into force.
  
  The majority of MPs voted not to exempt women's sanitary products from VAT as of the 1st of April 2018, deciding instead to let Treasury ministers determine if, and when, a zero-rating would come into force.
  
  MPs were considering the Finance Bill[1].
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment: 144, page 205, line 32, leave out âsuchâ and insert
  
  â1 April 2018, or on any priorâ.
  
  The rejected amendment would have impacted Clause 125(5) which provided for determining when the zero VAT rating of women's sanitary products would come into force:
  
  :The amendments made by this section have effect in relation to supplies made, and acquisitions and importations taking place, on or after such day as the Treasury may by regulations made by statutory instrument appoint.
  
  The rejected amendment would have set a firm date of the 1st of April 2018 rather than leaving it up to regulations to set the date and bring the zero-rating into effect. 
  
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2016-17/finance.html Parliament's webpage on the Finance Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2016-2017/0047/cbill_2016-20170047_en_10.htm#pt2-pb1-l1g55 Clause 55 of the Finance Bill as at the time of the vote]
  
  
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