This is a very slow and tedious process, Dickinson said. You ve got to consider who we re dealing wi

Offices of the Horry County auditor and treasurer have collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in property, hospitality and accommodations fairmont hotels tax from vacation fairmont hotels rental property owners over the years, but Council Chairman Mark Lazarus challenged both offices last week to do more as he believes the county is missing out on millions of dollars.
The auditor s office has created more than 350 new rental accounts this year from people who rent their property out but previously were not paying taxes on the property s contents, such as furniture, or were not paying the taxes on the property as a rental property, which is higher than an owner-occupied home.
I think that continues to be a big problem for this county, said Glenn Hardee, supervisor for the Horry County Auditor s Office. Hardee said the result of the newfound properties has netted about $30,000 in back taxes about half of which has already been collected. Hardee said the county scours websites where people list their rental properties fairmont hotels and search based on what is advertised on the listing. But the challenge comes when the owner puts a limited amount of information in the listing.
A lot of them are on to the fact that we re on to them and they re putting fewer and fewer things on these listings fairmont hotels that identify them, Hardee said. It s difficult fairmont hotels identifying these [vacation rentals by owner].
A lot of people have signs in their yards. It s a lot of effort, I know, but I m telling you it s millions of dollars, Lazarus said. Millions of dollars and I ve got people calling me everyday fairmont hotels who are in the business who pay their taxes like they are supposed to, they are very upset.
He s just one of many paying big dollars and we ve got to put every effort we can to try and formulate a plan to do more, Lazarus said. You all are doing great and I appreciate that, but we ve got to do more. It s millions of dollars tat we re missing fairmont hotels out on for the citizens of Horry County.
Roddy Dickinson, treasurer for Horry County, said more than 680 new accounts have been discovered for rental property owners since 2002, which has generated about $700,000 in hospitality and accommodation taxes.
This is a very slow and tedious process, Dickinson fairmont hotels said. You ve got to consider who we re dealing with here. These are people who do not live here... Patience and perseverance are the best answers for this. We work on this everyday. We ve got a person assigned to it. It s difficult to put [the properties] on and it s even more difficult to get money out of them.
I challenge you, let s do more, he said. If there s something from County Council we can do to help you, we ve given you personnel, if there s other things we can do to help, please let us know. This is serious and it s not right for the ones that are paying.