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The Homestead Exemption is a complete exemption of taxes on the first $50,000 in Fair Market Value of your Legal Residence for homeowners over age 65, totally and permanently disabled, or legally blind.

The Horry County Auditor's Office is responsible for the collection and processing of Personal Property Returns (Form PT-100). If you owned a property in Horry County on December 31st of the prior year and this was not your legal residence, you are required to complete and submit a Personal Property Return.

Commercial real property is assessed at 6%. Personal use motor vehicles are assessed at 6%; motor vehicles that do not qualify as personal use motor vehicles (i.e., those that are used for business, are assessed at 10.5 %.)

Business Personal Property Tax (BPP) is a tax on the furniture, fixtures, and equipment that are owned and used in a business. Any assets that are claimed on the business' income taxes should be reported on the BPP tax return.

South Carolina has some of the lowest property tax rates of any state in the country. The average effective property tax rate in South Carolina is just 0.52%, well below the national average of 0.99%.

Property typically includes the furniture, fixtures, and equipment that are owned and used to operate a business. Inventory, land, and buildings are not taxable. Taxation of leasing equipment depends on the terms of a leasing agreement. Business Personal Property is assessed at 10.5%.

South Carolina also has a flat 5.00 percent corporate income tax rate. South Carolina has a 6.00 percent state sales tax rate, a max local sales tax rate of 3.00 percent, and an average combined state and local sales tax rate of 7.43 percent.

Privately owned passenger vehicles: 6% of retail value. Business owned vehicles: 10.5% of retail value. Trucks with an empty weight over 9,000 lb or a gross weight over 11,000 lb: 10.5% of retail value (the weight used is provided by the manufacturer) including privately owned vehicles.