Lexington County, SC
CPA & Tax Services in Lexington County, SC
Lexington County wraps around Lake Murray and functions largely as Columbia’s western suburbs. Haigler CPA Group works with individuals and business owners across the county — Lexington, Cayce, West Columbia, Irmo, Chapin and Batesburg-Leesville — from the firm’s office on James Island in Charleston.
Served from
2012 Wappoo Drive, Charleston SC 29412
Lexington County is a service area. There is no office here.
What Lexington County actually asks us
Lake Murray property that is let for part of the year is the county’s distinctive question; the rest is wage and small-business work done properly.
Lexington County is one of the state’s larger counties in the Midlands, 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.
- Lexington, SC
- Cayce, SC
- West Columbia, SC
- Irmo, SC
- Chapin, SC
- Batesburg-Leesville, SC
If you are outside those, the county line is what matters rather than the town — anywhere in Lexington County is the same engagement.
Property tax, in one paragraph
A lake house is the classic 6% property: not a legal residence, taxed accordingly, and often let for part of the year on top. The 4% ratio has to be applied for on the home that actually qualifies, and only one property can.
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 Lexington — a county assessor appeal being the obvious case — or a specialist rather than a generalist.
Services for Lexington 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.
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The plan that ties entity choice, timing, property and exit decisions together.
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Next steps
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