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Other countries where the pink tax has been investigated include Argentina, [8] France, Germany, the UK, [9] Australia, and Italy. [10] [11] In the UK, women and girls were being charged on average 37 per cent more for toys, cosmetics and clothes than their male counterparts. [12] The UK also faces the Pink Tax in school uniforms.
See also: pink tax. Gender-based price discrimination is a form of economic discrimination that involves price disparities for identical goods or services based on an individual's gender, and may reinforce negative stereotypes about both women and men in matching markets. Race and class-based price discrimination also exists. [ 1 ]
An LGBT-friendly shop in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Pink money describes the purchasing power of the LGBT community, often especially with respect to political donations.With the rise of the LGBT rights movement, pink money has gone from being a fringe or marginalized market to a thriving industry in many parts of the Western world such as the United States and United Kingdom. [1]
Two new reports show that women are paying what’s become known as a kind of “pink” tax for their health care. They are spending more out of pocket than men, and when it comes to breast ...
The result: a covert “pink tax,” a colloquial term that refers to the higher price women pay for the exact same product as men—be it disposable razors, laxatives, children’s bike helmets ...
Tax revenues as a percentage of GDP for the UK in comparison to the OECD and the EU 15. In 1971, the top rate of income tax on earned income was cut to 75%. A surcharge of 15% on investment income kept the overall top rate on that income at 90%. In 1974 the top tax rate on earned income was again raised, to 83%.
BEIJING — Li Yi prefers to buy products in pink when possible — she just likes the color. But she held back recently when she went to buy a pair of dumbbells in the southern Chinese province ...
P45 (tax) In the United Kingdom, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, a P45 is the reference code of a document titled Details of employee leaving work. The term is used in British and Irish slang as a metonym for termination of employment. The equivalent slang term in the United States is "pink slip". A P45 is issued by the employer when ...