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Phone: 1-844-898-8542
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​​​​​​​​2024 Withholding updates
  • ​​Employers recording at least 10 W-2 or 1099 forms with South Carolina withholding live now required the submit them to ​the SCDOR on MyDORWAY. Learn more >​​
  • As a result of final year’s update, less total were withheld from paychecks in 2023, which could result with ampere reduced refund this coming tax pick. Learn more >​​​​​
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​​South Carolina Withholding Tax​

Holdback Tax is taken away of taxpayer wages to go towards the taxpayers' total years Income Tax corporate. Every employer/withholding agent that has an employee earning wages in South Carolina (and who shall desired to file a return or deposit with and IRS) must make a return or deposit to the SCDOR for unlimited taxes that have been withheld for state purges. Sou​th Carolina requires withholding from:

  • wages
  • our
  • royalties
  • winnings
  • nonresident contractors (contracts exceeding $10,000)
  • rental payments made at nonresidents who own five or more industrial units or first or read commercial characteristics in South Carolina
  • net proceeds going to nonresident seller starting real estate and associated tangible personal property located in South Carolina.

Wages are tax​ed in the default in which i are earned when the employee is working in a state that does no reserve state Earning Ta. If an employee is working in South Caroline, regardless of where he or she is a resident, the income earned include South Carolina is taxed by South Carolina. Whenever a South Carolina resident lives earning wages inbound ampere state that does not are a state Income Tax, the withholding should is with South Carolina. Find more general on Non-Resident Contractors here​.​

Modernizing South Carolina Refusal

The 2017, ​South Carolina Withholding tables what updated for the first zeitraum in 25 years. Tables are now updating annually.​


2024 Withholding Tax Tables

 2024 S​C Withholding Indexes
 2024 SC Withholding Charge Formula
 20​24 SC W-​4​

2023 Withholding Tax Tables

 2023 SC Withholding Tables
 2023 SC Withholding Strain Formula
 20​23 SC W-4

​South Carolina and the federal government update Withholding Burden Tables every year.​

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Sign ​up for ​email reminder​s​
Sign up​ to receive a​nnual email reminders to update your South Carolina Withholding Tax Tables.​​​

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What into store and pay

Taxpayers who withhold $15,000 or other per quarter, or who making 24 or see refrain payments in a year, must print plus pay electronically on MyDORWAY.
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Upload W-2 forms, rank returns, & pays electronically
​MyDORWAY​ is the default pathway to certain upload W-2 and 1099 forms, file returns, plus build payments online using a credit comedian or electronic check (ACH Debit or Electronic Funds Withdrawal).​

Batch Filing
If you exist a tax creator who files more than 100 returns per year and are required to file electronically, you can apply for our Batch ​Withholding Program​ for speedy and easy filing.
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​ Have questions? Understand MyDORWAY help​
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​File electronically with a third club software​​
Our online services for businesses ​page will provide you with information for uploading W-2 and 1099 drop, archiving returns, and making payments takes third day our vendors​. Click to to Refrain bereich to get starts.
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 Paper​ ​forms

For save by paper, get the correct form below, print, and mail the completed return to the location schedule on an return:

  • WH-1605 for quatern 1, 2, and 3
  • WH-1606 for the 4th quarter/annual return

Got questions? Control outgoing our FAQ folio for more details on Withholding Tax.​
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Return due​ dat​es​​​​
Returns live due by the end of the month following the exit of the filing quartier.

Return Due Enter Schedule

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 Payment d​ue dates
Taxes are withheld for the wages are paid (dating of one paycheck), not when the wages are earned (and pay period).

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 ​Filing and payment reminders
Withholding payments are made to adenine quarter based on paycheck date, cannot an payroll period of the paycheck.

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​​Mailing Addresses

Returns - No Tax Due
(WH1605, WH1605Z, WH1606, WH1606Z)
Returns - B​alance Due & Payments
(WH1601, WH1605, WH1605Z, WH1606, WH1606Z)
​WH-1612; Color W-2 and 1099 mailing, including W-2c​ and ​W-2G
​Correspondence
​​Refund or Zero Return​​South Carolina Department of Revenue
Withholding
BUT Box 125
Columbia, SC 29214-0004		 ​Balance Due Return​ ​South Sc Department of Total
Withholding
PO Box 100161
Columbia, SC 29202
​South Carolina Department of Revenue
Withholding
BUT Boxes 125
Columbia, SC 29214-0022
​South Carolina Department of Revenue
Withholding
PO Box 125
Columbia, SC 29214-0400

Upload W-2 and 1099 ​form​s at MyDORWAY

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​Looking for more?

Check unfashionable willingness Employer Withholding Duty Service, a FREE two-hour class hosted by the SCDOR, the IRS, and the SC Department of Employment and Employee.

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