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Post Info TOPIC: Researching Domicile in South Carolina


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Researching Domicile in South Carolina


 

Have any full time RVers set up domicile in South Carolina? If so, would you share steps necessary to make it happen? (We have reasons why this state is an option.)

Thank you for your help!



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The three states that most fulltimers use are Florida, South Dakota, & Texas. All three are RV friendly, don't put up obstacles to your becoming a resident, do not have a state income tax, have relatively low sales taxes on vehicles, excuse fulltimers who are traveling from jury duty, and have mail forwarding companies that focus on fulltime RVers. Since SC hasn't appeared on any list of domicile states for fulltimers, I assume that there are some things about the state law that make it less than ideal for fulltimers.

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We were residents of South Carolina since 1982.  Love the state!!

However, when we went Full-time in 2012, we found it does not work well for us and moved to Crestview, FL through PPA.

1.  Personal Property Tax on Motorhome:  SC-$2800/year   FL- none

2.  State Income Tax: SC-yes, FL-No

3.  Mail Forwarding (address): SC-none, FL-Passport America and several others

We still spend many months per year in South Carolina, just not as residents.

 



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What Nancy and Bill said X2. As SC residents (moved across the river from Georgia), we find the taxes to be outrageous. We plan to domicile in Texas when we go full time (in the next year or so, we hope).

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Lived there for 42 years and found it to be one of the least RV friendly states and high taxes to boot.  I think we are going to use South Dakota when we go full time.  

We live in Prescott Valley, AZ presently and find taxes in AZ much like the taxes in SC....Too High!biggrin  Would love to have AZ as our domicile since our drivers license doesn't expire until we turn 65 (which gives us another 15 years) but with the property tax, jury duty, income tax, etc. we will need to change states.

Taxes in SC

SCDOR

 



 



-- Edited by azrving on Sunday 10th of May 2015 11:32:27 AM

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azrving: Hopefully you have group health insurance if you want to go to SD. Unless you do not plan on traveling out of the state, since individual plans seem to all be in-state only.

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bjoyce wrote:

azrving: Hopefully you have group health insurance if you want to go to SD. Unless you do not plan on traveling out of the state, since individual plans seem to all be in-state only.


Good point,  I hadn't considered the health insurance but I will definitely look into that when we are ready to make a change.  Appreciate you mentioning that!wink 



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