Are Girl Scout cookies tax deductible?
Technically no, not unless you buy them and donate them to a charity instead of devouring them. So if you are not a cookie fan or are on a diet, consider donating money to the Scouts directly, bypassing the cookies. You’ll have a tax deduction and your waistline will benefit. Why aren’t Girl Scout Cookies sold online? Well actually they are, but are not supposed to be. Today I checked eBay and there were 79 listings for Girl Scout Cookies. Selling cookies on the Internet is prohibited by the Girl Scouts yet the “black market” for them continues. Some people just have to have their cookies delivered to their door via UPS I suppose. Thin Mints are still tops. 25% of Girl Scout Cookies sold are Thin Mints. Let’s do the math. That means 50 million boxes and with 32 cookies per box that equates to 1.6 BILLION Thin Mint cookies per year. At 40 calories per cookie we’re talking 64 BILLION calories per year on Thin Mint cookies. But who’s counting. Girl Scout Cookies have been around nationall
