Newsom has proposed eliminating sales taxes on purchases of diapers and menstrual products — proposals that Jerry Brown rejected.
Gov. Gavin Newsom discusses a plan to suspend the state sales tax on tampons and diapers in his upcoming budget on Tuesday in Sacramento. Newsom was accompanied by First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Assemblywomen Lorena Gonzalez, third from left, and Monique Limón.
And he said he will seek to expand an array of child care services, some of which would be funded by taxes collected on the sale of legalized marijuana.“There’s a deep agenda here and I hope you’re hearing it,” Newsom said at a midday news conference in Sacramento. “An agenda on affordability, an agenda on the cost crisis and an agenda to support parents.
Newsom also proposed eliminating sales taxes on tampons, sanitary napkins, menstrual sponges and menstrual cups. Those lost revenues would total almost $9 million a year, according to a recent Assembly analysis of a bill that seeks to remove those taxes. Both efforts have long been a priority of the Legislative Women’s Caucus but ran into stiff opposition from then-Gov. Jerry Brown,“Tax breaks are the same as new spending — they both cost the General Fund money,” Brown wrote in his veto message for the tax-free diaper and tampon proposals.
“This is something that will affect every single parent in California,” she said. “That’s substantive and that’s meaningful.”Gonzalez estimated families now pay as much as $120 a year in sales taxes on diapers, enough to pay for another month’s supply. Low-income families, she said, leave children unchanged for longer periods or re-use disposable diapers to cut down on the cost.
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