In 2019 Forecast, USC Research Economists Warn Tariffs Can Block Growth Rising interest rates and tariffs threaten an “economic tug-of-war” for a South Carolina economy [...]
Time Will Tell if New Tax Law Affects ‘Giving Tuesday’ for SC Nonprofits As charitable contribution totals are counted from 2018’s Giving Tuesday, the period following Black Friday marked [...]
State Downgrades Hurricane Florence Damage Estimate Nearly in Half After on-the-ground damage reports became available from local, state and federal officials, Gov. Henry McMaster informed South Carolina’s congressional members [...]
Conway Set for $500,000 More from FEMA in Flood Buyout Program FEMA has earmarked an additional $500,000 for a flood buyout program in Conway, an increase on the $11.13 [...]
Strong Economy Boosts Gov. McMaster to Election Win and Full Term South Carolina voters rewarded Republican Gov. Henry McMaster with his first full term for the office in Tuesday’s [...]
DOR Director Powell: ‘Large Internet Retailer’ Must Obey SC’s Online Sales Tax Law Hartley Powell, Director of the SC Department of Revenue, recently told a state Senate committee that [...]
Charleston Airport will Offer Nonstop Flights to London in 2019 British Airways will offer nonstop service from Charleston International Airport to London’s Heathrow Airport from early April through late [...]
Nightmare Tech Support Scam Robs SC Woman of $18,000 When Sun City Hilton Head resident Laura Marks, 68, used a Google ad to find computer printer tech support in [...]
Will SC’s Employees or Projects be Recipients of State’s $177M Budget Surplus? The S.C. State Employees Association wrote to Gov. Henry McMaster to consider splitting the state’s $177 million [...]
How SC’s 2019 Tax Returns will be Complicated Without Conformity SC’s legislative leaders have a chance to complete 2018 Tax Conformity starting with a special session next week, and [...]
Tourism Crowds Skip Lowcountry After Florence Evacuation Order Hotels in the Charleston area, where occupancy rates typically are 85% in this part of the tourism season, are focused on [...]
Why Tariffs Knocked Rural Winnsboro Element Electronics in Winnsboro (35 minutes north of Columbia on I-77) employs 134 people as the country’s only TV assembly plant but layoffs are [...]
IRS Loophole Proposal Could Constrict Exceptional SC Scholarship Donations Proposed IRS regulations that attempt to clarify expectations between charitable contributions and tax payments could limit a loophole that made [...]
Legislators Float Ideas for State’s $177 Million Budget Surplus S.C Comptroller Richard Eckstrom announced a one-time $177 million surplus for the fiscal year that ended for the state’s $8.1 [...]
How South Carolina Differs from Other States in Wayfair Decision The Baker Donelson law firm examines how the Supreme Court’s Wayfair decision for collecting online sales taxes already has [...]
Removing Barriers for Women to Work Could Diminish S.C.’s Labor Shortage While South Carolina’s unemployment rate is at its lowest point in about 40 years, the state trails the [...]
To Absorb Tariffs, BMW Raises Prices in China on SC-made Vehicles China’s retaliatory 25% tariff on American-made cars, which brings the Chinese import tax to 40% as of July 6, [...]
Construction Jobs Evaporating in South Carolina The Associated General Contractors of America say South Carolina dropped 1,600 construction jobs in its report of May to June activity. That’s a [...]
Amid Tariff Reactions, BMW Says Spartanburg Expansion Still on Track German automaker BMW and Chinese partner Brilliance Automotive Group Holdings announced the joint venture BMW Brilliance Automotive to increase [...]
State’s Unemployment Rank Sank to 4% in May About 1,800 jobs were created and South Carolina unemployment rate dipped to 4% in May, according to DEW numbers. The unemployment [...]
