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1,000 Sign Tax Break Petition for Cloth Diaper Users
Nichole McLeod and Julie Adamson of Happy Nappy Diaper Service serving customers from North Vancouver to Chilliwack, are committed to cloth diapers; they think the government should be as well. These two entrepreneurs are lobbying the federal government to give a tax break for families using cloth diapers. The want this tax credit to include both families who use a cloth diaper service or those that wash them at home.
According to Philip Raphael of the South Delta Leader, “The two came up with the idea for a petition earlier this year and have already received about 1,000 signatures from people across the country…they hope to collect about another 3,000 names and send them to the House of Commons in Ottawa.”
You can download a petition form at Happy Nappy.
Both McLeod and Adamson believe that apart from the tax credit for using cloth diapers, the disposable diaper industry should be “subject to an environmental fee.”
Her justification for such a fee? “Consumers already pay an additional sum for recyclable items such as motor oil and car tires…so why are disposable diapers exempt when hundreds of thousands end up in landfills each year?”
To read more, read Clean Credit by Philip Raphael.
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I was just telling my mom that I think they should do this along with the rebates they are giving people for greening their homes.
I would love it if the US had tax breaks for CD users and additional fees for the disposable industry. I totally agree with these women–we pay a fee to recycle, they should pay a fee to produce enormous amounts of waste! And we should get a break!
I compleately agree my only issue is how do you prove that you do clothi diapering? and alot of daycares wont watch you kid if you do cloth diapering so you have to use disposibles when you bring them
If you have problems at with daycare using cloth diapers, ask your child’s doctor if they can write a note. That is what I had to do.
To prove you’re using cloth, the IRS could require receipts for the diapers if you’re audited. It seems this idea would be hard to get past the lobbyists, but it’s worth a shot!
This would be great…I have seen on t.v. some people say cloth diapering isnt green because of the water it takes to wash!!! I was like what!!! You put so much diapers in the dump but thats ok????