S.C. Code Ann. § 12-39-310
Each county auditor shall respond to all inquiries to him by the Comptroller General regarding the value of real estate of the county and the valuations of the different classes of personal property for taxation, and matters which the Comptroller General considers of interest to the public or of value to him in the discharge of the duties of his office. These responses must be made in the form and must contain the details the Comptroller General may prescribe.