Horry County, SC
CPA & Tax Services in Horry County, SC
The Grand Strand gives Horry County the largest concentration of short-term rental and hospitality income in South Carolina, while the inland end around Loris and Aynor is still farming country. Haigler CPA Group works with individuals and business owners across the county — Conway, Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Surfside Beach, Loris and Aynor — from the firm’s office on James Island in Charleston.
Served from
2012 Wappoo Drive, Charleston SC 29412
Horry County is a service area. There is no office here.
What Horry County actually asks us
Nightly-let property is the single most common reason people call: how many days it was rented, how many it was used personally, and whether accommodations tax sits on top of the income tax.
Horry County is one of the state’s larger counties in the Pee Dee, 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.
- Conway, SC
- Myrtle Beach, SC
- North Myrtle Beach, SC
- Surfside Beach, SC
- Loris, SC
- Aynor, SC
If you are outside those, the county line is what matters rather than the town — anywhere in Horry County is the same engagement.
Property tax, in one paragraph
Because so much residential property in the county is a rental or a second home rather than someone’s legal residence, the 4% and 6% assessment split is the single biggest lever on a local property tax bill. The 4% legal-residence ratio is not automatic — 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 Conway — a county assessor appeal being the obvious case — or a specialist rather than a generalist.
Services for Horry County clients
Business Tax
Year-round planning, corporate returns, pass-through entities and multi-state compliance.
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1040 preparation, tax-saving strategy, and multi-state or expatriate filings.
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Due diligence, deal structuring, and exit or succession planning.
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IRS audits, penalty abatement, appeals, and back-tax resolution.
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Schedule E, depreciation, 1031 exchanges, and the short-term rental loophole.
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Clean books, reconciled monthly, ready for tax time.
Learn moreTax Planning & Advisory
The plan that ties entity choice, timing, property and exit decisions together.
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Next steps
- Schedule a consultationWhat the first conversation covers, and what is worth having to hand.Go
- Industries we serveWhere the practice concentrates, and what that means for you.Go
- Documents to bringA checklist for the first conversation, so the second is about answers.Go
- Frequently asked questionsEngagement, service area, deadlines, documents and IRS notices.Go
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