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On February 11, 2021 in Closings
Due to increased cases of COVID-19 and potential exposures, the Horry County Auditor's office in Myrtle Beach located at 1201 21st Avenue North, will be closed effective immediately through February 18, 2021. The office is anticipated to reopen on Friday, February 19, 2021.
The offices located in Conway, Little River and South Strand will remain open and operating on normal schedule. Some services, including the application for the homestead exemption, are available online.
Visit horrycounty.org/Departments/Auditor for those services, location and contact information for the other branches. You can also email questions to auditor@horrycounty.org.
On December 20, 2020 in Closings
Due to increased cases of COVID-19 and potential exposures, the Horry County Auditor's Conway office located at the Government and Justice Center will be closed next week, December 21 through December 25. The offices located in Little River, Myrtle Beach, and South Strand will remain open and operating on normal schedule. Some services, including the application for the homestead exemption are available online. Visit horrycounty.org/Departments/Auditor for those services, location and contact information for the other branches. You can also email questions to auditor@horrycounty.org.
On July 28, 2020 in County News
The Horry County Auditor’s Office is pleased to announce further improvements to their online e-filing systems for business personal property taxes. Since e-filing was introduced in 2017, it has become the most secure and preferred method of filing.
To date, the office has input 100,000 business personal property tax accounts. In the coming year, they will be able to add 150,000 additional accounts with assistance from new Robotic Processing Automation RPA from Blue Prism technology. The cost of the RPA technology for this project was $15,000. An estimated 3,000 hours of staff time will be saved annually with this new system allowing staff to focus on other projects and customer service initiatives.
There are plans to implement this same technology in other offices across the county to improve efficiencies and reduce staff time on manual data entry. In an effort to make more services paperless and to improve office efficiencies, the e-filing system and digital record keeping implemented by the Auditor’s office has allowed them to move the equivalent of 99 filing cabinets and 700 boxes of files to records retention.
“Working together with the Auditor, Assessor and Treasurer, our IT Department has done an absolutely fantastic job helping us implement new technology to save our taxpayers time and money,” said Auditor Lois Eargle. “We are going to continue to work together to make improvements and make our systems more efficient.”
Property subject to business personal property taxes include the furniture, fixtures, and equipment owned and used in business and accommodation type properties not primary residence. Property owners who have questions about filing business personal property taxes and the e-file e-form PR-26 can call the Horry County Auditor’s Office Business Personal Property Division at (843) 915-5054 or email auditor@horrycounty.org.
On April 14, 2020 in County News
Due to the impacts of COVID-19 in our area, the deadline for business personal property taxes has been extended to June 1, 2020. At the request of Horry County Government, the South Carolina Department of Revenue granted this extension for taxpayers filing a tax year 2020 business personal property return with Horry County.
Property subject to business personal property taxes include the furniture, fixtures, and equipment owned and used in business and accommodation type properties not primary residence.
Property owners who have questions about filing business personal property taxes and the e-file e-form PR-26 can call the Horry County Auditor’s Office Business Personal Property Division at (843) 915-5054.
E-filing form PR-26 is available here.
On October 21, 2019 in County News
REAL ESTATE INFORMATION / QUESTIONS: ASSESSOR’S OFFICE (843) 915-5040
https://www.horrycounty.org/Departments/Assessor
The Assessor’s office responsibilities include: keeps real property records (land, buildings and mobile homes), land transfers, appraises real property for tax purposes, takes applications for 4% assessment ratio (legal residence and agriculture property), maintains maps for assessment purposes and makes address changes on all real estate. To apply for any special assessment or make an address change please go online https://www.horrycounty.org/Departments/Assessor or come into our office.
PERSONAL PROPERTY INFORMATION / QUESTIONS:
AUDITOR’S OFFICE: (843) 915-5054, (843) 915-5050, (843) 915-5052, (843) 915-5053, (843) 915-5055
https://www.horrycounty.org/Departments/Auditor
The Auditor’s office responsibilities include: keeps records of and appraises personal property (autos, trucks, airplanes, boats, campers, etc.), receives information for taxation (boats, airplanes, business personal property, etc.), prepares tax notices, takes applications for Homestead Exemption (see Homestead Exemption information in glossary above), and makes address changes on all personal property.
**** Personal property licensed or registered with a state agency must be appealed to the County Auditor within twenty (20) days of the date of mailing of the tax notice. (SC Department of Revenue, PO Box 125, Columbia, SC 29214.)****
PAYMENT INFORMATION / QUESTIONS: TREASURER’S OFFICE: (843) 915-5470
https://www.horrycounty.org/Departments/Treasurer
https://www.horrycounty.org/Online-Services/Tax-Payments
https://www.horrycounty.org/Departments/Delinquent-Tax
The Treasurer’s office responsibilities include: collects current property and all vehicle taxes, online tax payments, installment payments, processes mortgage company payments, safeguards all county funds, distributes tax money to county, school and municipalities, invests funds for the county, collects executed taxes not paid after March 17 of each year and all delinquent taxes. ***You may pay online using a debit or credit card (convenience fees apply) or the fee free e-check option when you use a bank routing and account number https://www.horrycounty.org/Online-Services/Tax-Payments.
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