Constitutional Amendment Not Necessary to Change Property Tax Rates

(Before It's News)

Eric K. Ward reporting at TheNerve.org (which by the way … if you are not receiving their daily emails you should remedy that immediately!):

There’s something to be said for reading the S.C. Constitution.

In one example, the state’s founding charter has been cited many times as a big hurdle to lowering South Carolina’s manufacturing property tax rate – widely reported as the highest in the nation – because property tax rates are set in the constitution.

That’s in Article 10, Section 1of the document.

Therefore, the thinking goes, lowering the manufacturing property tax rate requires the herculean task of amending the constitution.

But as it turns out, that’s not the case.

REALLY? But … but … they told us it was! (insert eyeroll)

So read the article, Erik has really done a lot of research and put a lot of information into this Nerve article. Taxpayer Associations, tax activists … here you go, your homework before the next legislative session begins.

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