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Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?

More or Less: Behind the Stats

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Several UK cancer charities have been campaigning for the government to scrap value-added tax on sunscreen, known as VAT. But is this necessarily the case, does cutting VAT on a product reduce the price? We thought we should look at two actual cases of VAT being abolished in the UK recently. One was tampons, the other was ebooks.

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