{"id":43632,"date":"2026-01-13T15:39:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43632"},"modified":"2026-01-13T15:39:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:39:29","slug":"china-will-tax-contraceptives-in-a-bid-to-improve-birth-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43632","title":{"rendered":"China Will Tax Contraceptives in a Bid to Improve Birth Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/china-to-tax-contraceptives\/?utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_011026&amp;bxid=5dfac0863f92a458a45dfe60&amp;cndid=20773990&amp;hasha=a014c29e767b1f4c925071fc429b3684&amp;hashc=a199d1a12789b63955272bdb61e15fa661bd9e53a8935d821e3b193416c28ac1&amp;esrc=OIDC_SELECT_ACCOUNT_\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/695ee1caa31dda498ae13b79\/16:9\/w_640%2Cc_limit\/undefined\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:238px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Amid historically low birth rates and economic pressures from its aging population, China will eliminate a decades-old tax exemption on contraceptives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/china-to-tax-contraceptives\/\">China Will Tax Contraceptives in a Bid to Improve Birth Rates<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>China aims to impose a unique strategy to address a falling birth rate that threatens its long-term stability. As of January 1, 2026, the government <strong><em>will levy a 13 percent value-added tax (VAT) on various contraceptives, including condoms<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid historically low birth rates and economic pressures from its aging population,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[150,2090,18],"class_list":["post-43632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-china","tag-condoms","tag-economics","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43634,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43632\/revisions\/43634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}