3 How the cookie crumbles.

• Position: STATELINE - Girl Scouts in Idaho - Brief article

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Girl Scouts in Idaho will continue to collect a 6 percent state sales tax on their popular cookies, despite two lawmakers' efforts this session to end the practice. (Hawaii is the only other state to charge sales tax on the treats.) Representatives Eric Anderson (R) and Grant Burgoyne (D) rolled out legislation to exempt the cookies from the tax--22 cents per $3.75 box--arguing the estimated $140,000 it adds to state coffers...