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Informationen zum Autor Dr. Alara Efsun Yaz¿c¿ölu 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. Klappentext 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 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. Zusammenfassung 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 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
