Personal property is considered Class II property and is taxed at 20 percent of market value. A complete itemized listing of all personal property owned on October 1 must be provided to the appropriate assessing official.Exemption applications must be filed with your local assessor's office. See our Municipal Profiles for your local assessor's mailing address. The Personal Property Division information page of the SDAT Web site contains links to forms and instructions, brochures, exemptions, tax rate charts and more. We'll walk through a short guide to how to prepare the property statement. File the return with the Property Valuation Administrator (PVA) in the county of taxable situs. See pages 11 and 12 for a complete listing of mailing addresses. Enter the current fair market value of all other personal property owned but not included in any of the previous sections (i.e. Furniture, jewelry, etc.).