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Pink Tax and the Law: Discriminating Against Women Consumers book cover

1st Edition

Pink Tax and the Law Discriminating Against Women Consumers

By Alara Efsun Yazıcıoğlu Copyright 2018
102 Pages
by Routledge

102 Pages
by Routledge

102 Pages
by Routledge
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The 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. Does the... Read more

Acronyms



Acknowledgements



1 Introduction



2 Gender versus sex



3 Understanding the term ‘pink tax’



4 The ‘pink tax’ phenomenon



5 The pink tax: the Schrödinger’s cat of tax law



6 Legal analysis of the ‘tampon tax’



7 Government intervention



8 Conclusion



Index

Biography

Dr. Alara Efsun Yazıcıoğlu is an assistant professor and an attorney at law. She is specialized in tax law and sports law. She worked formerly as a senior attorney at PwC Turkey, as a legal advisor at Oberson Avocats (Switzerland) and as a teaching and research assistant in tax law at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). She has publications on various aspects of tax law and sports law, including a co-authored practical cases book (Droit fiscal suisse et international: Recueil de cas pratiques) published by Helbing Lichtenhahn Verlag.

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