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Add South Carolina homestead property tax exemption#8311

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Summary

  • Adds South Carolina's Homestead Exemption for senior, disabled, and blind homeowners.
  • Models the exemption for the first $50,000 of fair market residence value, converted to a $2,000 assessed-value exemption using South Carolina's 4% legal-residence assessment rate.
  • Adds focused eligibility, exemption, and reduction tests.
  • Keeps the rule household-calculator-only for now; this PR does not wire the reduction into baseline property-tax-credit aggregates while assessed-property-value data readiness is unresolved.

Closes #8201.

Value Review

  • South Carolina Department of Revenue says the Homestead Exemption exempts the first $50,000 of the fair market value of the dwelling place for qualifying homeowners.
  • The same source states legal residences are assessed at 4%, so this PR applies the $50,000 exemption as $2,000 of assessed value before estimating the property-tax reduction.

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  • PYTHONPATH=. /Users/daphnehansell/Documents/GitHub/policyengine-us/.venv/bin/python -m policyengine_core.scripts.policyengine_command test policyengine_us/tests/policy/baseline/gov/states/sc/tax/property/homestead_exemption -c policyengine_us
  • /Users/daphnehansell/Documents/GitHub/policyengine-us/.venv/bin/ruff check policyengine_us/variables/gov/states/sc/tax/property/homestead_exemption

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✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 100.00%. Comparing base (eee0f91) to head (0cd4c7c).
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Add South Carolina homestead exemption for seniors

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