South Carolina leads the nation in paperless tax filing South Carolina taxpayers are more likely to file their income tax return electronically than any other state's taxpayers in the country. More than half of all tax returns received by the South Carolina Department of Revenue have been through some method other than traditional paper returns. The Department of Revenue has processed 739,583 individual income tax returns. Telefile, in its second year, surpassed last year's total by mid-March.
Electronic filing continues to be a popular filing method.
The percentage of total taxpayers in South Carolina which use electronic filing is the highest in the nation. Another method of filing tax returns is through the home computer. Taxpayers can download popular software programs from commercial tax preparation services, complete their returns and send them back to the taxing authorities over their computer modems. Be sure to look for a package that carries both the federal and South Carolina returns. The deadline for filing state and federal income tax returns is Wednesday, April 15.