New York state’s sales tax on tampons and sanitary napkins was challenged as unconstitutional in a suit filed Thursday because its cost is borne by women while many products aimed at men are exempted from sales tax as medical items.
The class-action complaint, Seibert v. New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, was filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on behalf of five female plaintiffs.
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