House Ways and Means Chairman Bruce Bannister, R-Greenville, announces the GOP income tax reform legislation surrounded by House and Senate Republicans at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Photo by Travis Bell/STATEHOUSE CAROLINA/Special to the SC Daily Gazette)
COLUMBIA — Legislation touted by GOP leaders as making South Carolina’s tax code appear more competitive by making it “fair and flat” would require most tax filers to pay more initially, according to an analysis by state fiscal experts.
The bill easily advanced Tuesday to the full House Ways and Means Committee…