https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/640103/sex-robot-tax-government-10-000-price-hike

Oh shit. We're in trouble, guys :(. Hopefully someone comes up with a way around the tax if anything like this happens.

Here's an idea: Doll companies wait until this shit goes down, then simply rebrand their products as "mannequins". Here in the States, there was a huge tax hike on roll-your-own cigarette tobacco. Bags that were only $6 suddenly jumped to over $30. New RYO tobacco brands popped up selling the same thing as "pipe tobacco" in order to get around the new legislation, and it worked.

EDIT:
Turns out this article is from a tabloid site. Sorry. My mistake. We can breathe a sigh of relief....for now, that is. Many prominent feminists think like this, and once women wake up to the rising threat to their privilege, they'll play any dirty trick they can to protect it. A sudden mass-influx of truly realistic sex dolls into the sexual marketplace could be the de-facto start of a cultural war, potentially a violent one.