South Carolina vehicle property tax appeal documentation?

[eclarkso]

My 2023 Standard Model 3 (~14K miles) is being valued at $39330 for SC/county/city property taxes, which is more than reality. Per my county (Richland), to appeal I should send "a current appraisal (retail value) by a dealer of the same make vehicle". Does anyone have any experience (or educated guess) what satisfies that?

I sent in screenshots and a table of 9 listings in SC or neighboring states from Carmax, Carvana and Tesla, each of which with 10-20K miles (average ~$31.5K FWIW), and the response was "You will have to submit documentation from the TESLA dealership in order to appeal".

I replied that 3 of the listings were from Tesla, so do they want a PDF of them printed out or... ?

Hopefully they can provide some clarity (which I can relay here for future searchers), but I figured I might make other inquires and perhaps short-circuit a lengthy back-and-forth if possible.

 

[Jeremy3292]

It’s not worth it bc the math doesn’t math. Even if you were able to get something, we are talking $50 less in taxes or something. Not like you’ll get the bill cut in half

 

[eclarkso]

Half, no - but it's a lot more than $50?

My bill is $1150, nearly all of which is pro rata. If a fair valuation is ~$29-32K, then that's a $2-300 difference in a single year (and some next year, and the year after that...).

The latest response is that I need "an appraisal from Tesla. They need to provide you company documentation on their company letterhead of the same make and model".

Maybe it's just me, but that seems like a really weird (and hard to satisfy) request for a used car.. I may just try PDF'ing a used listing like https://www.tesla.com/m3/order/5YJ3E1EA0PF406622 and see if that suffices...