Baldwin County Tax Commissioner (Kallie C. Kitchings): the homestead route, the office the county’s longtime commissioner built, and the portal that publishes no exemption text

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The Baldwin County Tax Commissioner - Kallie C. Kitchings, 1601 N. Columbia St., Suite 100, Milledgeville, GA 31061 (478-445-4813, fax 478-445-0712, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.) - takes the homestead applications the county's Government Window portal routes online; the portal's Property Tax pages render only in JavaScript and publish no exemption text, so the disabled-veteran amounts remain the State's on the O.C.G.A. 48-5-48 and 48-5-52.1 entries, and the Tax Assessor's Office (1601 N. Columbia Street, Suite 120, 478-445-5300) approves the exemptions.

Also called: Tax Commissioner, Kallie C. Kitchings, Cathy Freeman Settle, homestead exemption, disabled veteran, 48-5-48, 48-5-52.1, 478-445-4813, 478-445-5300, 1601 N. Columbia St, Suite 100, Suite 120, baldwincountygatax.com, Government Window, Milledgeville, Milledgeville, Hardwick, Midway.

For: Veteran or service member, survivor.

Where it applies

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Baldwin County, GACounty

The exemptions are Georgia's: O.C.G.A. 48-5-48 for the qualifying disabled veteran and 48-5-52.1 for the unremarried surviving spouse of a service member killed in a war or armed conflict - the State entries carry the statutes, the qualification list and the yearly indexed amount. What Baldwin's offices add is the route. Where and who. Tax Commissioner Kallie C. Kitchings, 1601 N. Columbia St., Suite 100, Milledgeville, GA 31061; phone (478) 445-4813, fax (478) 445-0712; "Office Hours Monday - Friday 8:30am - 4:45pm Closed on holidays." The office's own site, baldwincountygatax.com, is a Government Window portal: its menu lists a Property Tax Dept with General Information, Homestead Exemption, Tax Bill Information, Taxpayer Brochure, Mobile Homes and Timber pages, but the pages themselves render only in JavaScript and the payment portal answers a Cloudflare-style challenge, so no exemption text could be read (the gap goes to docs/COUNTY-REVISIT.md). The site's news block was read: it records the office's closure on "Monday, October 19, 2026, in honor and remembrance of our longtime Tax Commissioner, Cathy Freeman Settle, and to allow staff to attend her services", and the 2025 property-tax and 2026 mobile-home due-date notices. The assessor. The Board of Tax Assessors sits at 1601 N. Columbia Street, Suite 120, Milledgeville, (478) 445-5300; its qPublic record-search site was not read (the same gap). A qualifying disabled veteran files under the State's sections and reads the amounts on the State entries.

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Thresholds for Baldwin County Tax Commissioner (Kallie C. Kitchings): the homestead route, the office the county’s longtime commissioner built, and the portal that publishes no exemption text
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Qualifying disabled veteran or surviving spouse who owns and occupies the home	The exemption follows O.C.G.A. 48-5-48 and 48-5-52.1; the county offices take the application and the portal publishes no veteran amounts of its own. The rating filter never hides this entry.

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Last updated 2026-11-03.

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