South Carolina § 12-60-2130 - Taxpayer or local governing body may request contested case hearing.

§ 12-60-2130. Taxpayer or local governing body may request contested case hearing.

A property taxpayer or the local governing body who disagrees with the department determination may request a contested case hearing before the Administrative Law Court if he files an action within thirty days of the date of the department's determination. Requests for a hearing before the Administrative Law Court must be made in accordance with its rules. If a taxpayer requests a contested case hearing before the Administrative Law Court without exhausting his prehearing remedy because he failed to file a protest, the administrative law judge shall dismiss the action without prejudice. If the taxpayer failed to provide the department with the facts, law, and other authority supporting his position, he shall provide the department with the facts, law, and other authority he failed to present to the department earlier. The administrative law judge shall then remand the case to the department for reconsideration in light of the new facts or issues unless the department elects to forego the remand.

Upon remand the department will have thirty days, or a longer period ordered by the administrative law judge, to consider the new facts and issues and amend its department determination. The department shall issue its amended department determination in the same manner as the original. The taxpayer has thirty days after the date the department's amended determination was sent by first class mail or delivered to the taxpayer to again request a contested case hearing. Requests for a hearing before the Administrative Law Court must be made in accordance with its rules. If the department fails to issue its amended department determination within thirty days of the date of the remand, or a longer period ordered by the administrative law judge, the taxpayer can again request a contested case hearing. At the new hearing the facts, law, and other authority presented at the original hearing must be deemed to have been presented in a timely manner for purposes of exhausting the taxpayer's prehearing remedy. The statute of limitations remains suspended by Section 12-54-85(G) during this process.

HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 60, SECTION 4A; 1996 Act No. 456, SECTION 11.