CPA & Tax Services in Dorchester County, SC

What Dorchester County actually asks us

Most of the county commutes toward Charleston, so the recurring work is ordinary wage returns done properly, with contractor and job-costing questions from the industrial end.

Dorchester County is one of the state’s larger counties in the Lowcountry, and the work reflects that rather than a standard menu: returns and planning for the people and businesses that are actually here, with bookkeeping where the books are the thing holding the return back.

• St. George, SC
• Summerville, SC
• Ridgeville, SC
• Harleyville, SC

If you are outside those, the county line is what matters rather than the town — anywhere in Dorchester County is the same engagement.

Property tax, in one paragraph

South Carolina assesses an owner-occupied legal residence at 4% of value and most other real property at 6%. The gap is wide, the 4% ratio is not automatic, and it has to be applied for on the property that qualifies.

South Carolina also exempts the first $50,000 of a legal residence’s fair market value from property tax for owners aged 65 or over, totally and permanently disabled, or legally blind. It is applied for with the county auditor rather than on the income tax return, and it is a separate thing from the 4% ratio — the two are routinely confused for one another.

How this works at a distance

The office is in Charleston. Documents move through the secure portal rather than email, review happens by video, and we will say plainly when something needs someone local to St. George — a county assessor appeal being the obvious case — or a specialist rather than a generalist.