{"id":16177,"date":"2013-03-11T11:06:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T17:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=16177"},"modified":"2013-03-11T11:06:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T17:06:07","slug":"idaho-girl-scout-cookie-tax-exemption-clears-its-first-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/03\/11\/idaho-girl-scout-cookie-tax-exemption-clears-its-first-hurdle\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Girl Scout Cookie Tax Exemption Clears Its First Hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15803\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Cosette is 8-years-old and recently became a Girl Scout. Here's why she joined, &quot;You get to learn new friends, and you get to sell some cookies, and maybe eat some.&quot; \" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/02\/Cookie-Boxes.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15803\" title=\"Girl Scouts cookie boxes\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/02\/Cookie-Boxes-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/02\/Cookie-Boxes-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2013\/02\/Cookie-Boxes-620x526.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Emilie Ritter Saunders \/ StateImpact<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cosette is 8-years-old and recently became a Girl Scout. Here&#39;s why she joined, &quot;You get to learn new friends, and you get to sell some cookies, and maybe eat some.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Girl Scout cookies sold in Idaho are one step closer to being tax-free. The House Revenue and Tax Committee unanimously agreed to send the <a title=\"With $140,000 On The Line, Idaho Girl Scouts Try Their Hand At Lobbying\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/02\/19\/with-140000-on-the-line-idaho-girl-scouts-try-their-hand-at-lobbying\/\" target=\"_blank\">new tax exemption proposal<\/a> on for a vote in the full House.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho Girl Scouts sell an estimated $2.5 million worth of their famed cookies each year, resulting in $140,000 in sales tax revenue for the state.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Robert Anderst (R-Nampa) voted in favor of the tax exemption, but wants the Legislature to think about dealing with exemptions differently, in a less piecemeal fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, 75 specific organizations, goods and services <a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/tag\/tax-exemptions\/\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t have to pay Idaho sales tax<\/a>.<!--more--> For example, funeral caskets, ski lifts, commercial aircraft, and vending machines are among the goods not taxed in Idaho.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-content alignleft\"><h4 class=\"related-header\">Related<\/h4><div class=\"links\"><h5>Posts<\/h5><ul><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/02\/19\/with-140000-on-the-line-idaho-girl-scouts-try-their-hand-at-lobbying\/\">With $140,000 On The Line, Idaho Girl Scouts Try Their Hand At Lobbying<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/02\/07\/girl-scout-cookies-sold-in-idaho-theres-a-tax-on-that\/\">Girl Scout Cookies Sold In Idaho? There&#8217;s A Tax On That<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/02\/25\/what-idaho-lawmakers-know-and-dont-when-making-tough-tax-policy-decisions\/\">What Idaho Lawmakers Know &#8211; And Don&#8217;t &#8211; When Making Tough Tax Policy Decisions<\/a><\/li><li class=\"link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2013\/02\/12\/a-sales-tax-exemption-for-anti-abortion-resource-clinics-passes-the-house\/\">A Sales Tax Exemption For Anti-Abortion Resource Clinics Passes The Idaho House<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"topics\"><h5>Topics<\/h5><p class=\"topic\"><img class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/05\/158263336.jpg\" height=\"60\" width=\"60\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/topic\/tax-exemptions\/\">Your Guide To Idaho&#8217;s Tax Exemptions<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;This is absolutely the wrong way to deal with tax policy,&#8221; Anderst says. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of good organizations out there, and although I&#8217;m going to support this, I think it&#8217;s important we step back at some point, obviously not today, but truly look at how we deal with 501c3s, nonprofits, anybody that has a core that goes to the betterment of Idaho.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girl Scout cookies sold in Idaho are one step closer to being tax-free. The House Revenue and Tax Committee unanimously agreed to send the new tax exemption proposal on for a vote in the full House. Idaho Girl Scouts sell an estimated $2.5 million worth of their famed cookies each year, resulting in $140,000 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":15803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[210,163],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}