Horry County wastes money sending bills to tax exempt
Time to blow off some steam about waste in the Auditor and Treasurer's office of Horry County. When a person is found to be tax exempt for a motor vehicle, why is it that a tax bill is generated and mailed out? I was on the phone with the Department of Revenue in Columbia and they told me Horry County is the only one that does this and Revenue agrees that it is a waste of paper and postage.
This is a waste of time and energy on both parties. I recall last year taking my bills to the county auditor and seeing a very large stack of tax bills from people that were exempt. Multiply that by all the offices in the county and you see all the wasted paper.. It's all your tax dollars paying for this paper wasteland.
If I am tax exempt and in the state computer as such, then I should not be getting tax bills. If this is a law, it needs to be changed. Maybe I should see my state representative and have this law changed.
George Bontya, Murrells Inlet
This story was originally published December 10, 2015 at 4:33 PM with the headline "Horry County wastes money sending bills to tax exempt."