Arlington County Disabled Veteran Real Estate Tax Exemption

This is how Arlington County applies the statewide disabled-veteran real estate exemption. The Department of Real Estate Assessments takes the application. The published qualifications do not include an income test or an asset test. The veteran has to own and occupy the home as the principal residence. The spouse, if there is one, has to be named on the application. Arlington asks for VA certification of a 100% service-connected, permanent, and total disability and the effective date of that rating. A temporary rating does not meet the county checklist. Statewide guidance also treats individual unemployability that VA rates permanent and total as meeting the same exemption. Take the VA letter that shows permanent and total status. A surviving spouse qualifies when the veteran died on or after January 1, 2011, the spouse has not remarried, and the spouse owns and occupies the home as the primary residence. The spouse needs the death certificate. Arlington does not publish an acreage larger than the statewide baseline of the dwelling and up to one acre. A veteran who is permanently and totally disabled but does not meet this service-connected test looks at the county Real Estate Tax Relief program instead.