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SCANA, subsidiaries pay more than $130M to S.C. counties |
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010 |
Staff Report
CAYCE -- SCANA Corp. and its subsidiaries, including S.C. Electric & Gas Co., paid more than $130.4 million in property taxes in South Carolina in 2009.
Richland and Lexington counties received more than $45 million of that total. Richland County received $23.8 million, which is the largest tax payment the company made to any county.
“Those dollars will help support schools, police, fire and other critical public services in the communities we serve,” SCANA spokesman Eric Boomhower said.
Other significant payments included:
$21.6 million
$21.2 million
$10.3 million
$9.8 million
$8 million
$5.9 million
$4.9 million
$4.3 million
$3.6 million
$3.3 million
$1.9 million
$1.3 million | Lexington County
Fairfield County
Orangeburg County
Charleston County
Aiken County
Jasper County
Berkeley County
Colleton County
Dorchester County
Beaufort County
Hampton County
Barnwell County |
SCANA, newly headquartered in Cayce, serves approximately 654,000 electric customers in South Carolina and more than 1.2 million natural gas customers in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia.
Published Jan. 26, 2010 |
