Berrien County Tax Commissioner (Catherine Barnes, interim) and Board of Tax Assessors (Greg Nimmo): the homestead route with the board’s own homestead-review window

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The Berrien County Tax Commissioner - Catherine Barnes, Interim Tax Commissioner, 201 N Davis Street, Suite 105, first floor of the Administration Building, Nashville, GA 31639 (229-686-7461, fax 229-686-2243, [email protected], Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., tax.berriencountypay.com) - and the Board of Tax Assessors (Chief Appraiser Greg Nimmo, Suite 122, 229-686-2149, fax 229-686-7819, with Appraiser Richard Allen and Assessment Clerk Marsha Sloan) take the exemption applications; the assessors' own notice records that the office reviews "New Construction, Homestead Applications, Agriculture Covenants, Additions, Remodeling, Reviewing Permits, Taxpayer Returns, Deed Transactions, Deletions, and Property Owner Requests" between January 1 and July 1 each year; the county's pages print no veteran exemption amounts of their own, so the amounts rest on the State entries; the qPublic record-search site was not read (the gap goes to docs/COUNTY-REVISIT.md).

Also called: Tax Commissioner, Catherine Barnes, homestead exemption, disabled veteran, 48-5-48, 48-5-52.1, 229-686-7461, 201 N Davis Street, Greg Nimmo, Richard Allen, Marsha Sloan, qpublic, Nashville, Nashville, Alapaha, Enigma, Ray City.

For: Veteran or service member, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Berrien 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 Berrien's offices add is the route and the board's own review calendar. Where and who. Interim Tax Commissioner Catherine Barnes, 201 N Davis Street, Suite 105, Nashville, GA 31639; office (229) 686-7461, fax (229) 686-2243, [email protected]; "Monday - Friday 8:00AM - 5:00PM"; the office's payment site is tax.berriencountyga.com's Government Window page, tax.berriencountypay.com. The county's Tax Commissioner page seats the staff: "Hilary Holbrook, Clerk" and "Donna Nash, Clerk". The Tax Assessor's page seats the board's office: "Greg Nimmo - Chief Appraiser, 201 N Davis Street, Location: First Floor of Administration Building, Suite 122, Office: (229) 686-2149, Fax: (229) 686-7819", with "Richard Allen, Appraiser" and "Marsha Sloan, Assessment Clerk", and carries the NOTICE: "The Berrien County Tax Assessors office will be Reviewing Property between the dates of January 1st through July 1st of each calendar year as their Normal course of Reviews for, New Construction, Homestead Applications, Agriculture Covenants, Additions, Remodeling, Reviewing Permits, Taxpayer Returns, Deed Transactions, Deletions, and Property Owner Requests. Pre-Billed Mobile Homes will be Reviewed May 15th through October 31st..." The board's own record. The 2025 minutes record the board's May appointment: "Administration received a request from Greg Nimmo, Board of Tax Assessors, to appoint Tony Lanier to fill the unexpired term of Barry McMillan on the Board of Assessors. His term will expire December 31, 2026. This will fill Position # 3." A veteran files with the Board of Tax Assessors and reads the amounts on the State entries; the qPublic record-search site answers a Cloudflare-style block (403) to plain fetch and was not read (the gap goes to docs/COUNTY-REVISIT.md).

Thresholds

Thresholds for Berrien County Tax Commissioner (Catherine Barnes, interim) and Board of Tax Assessors (Greg Nimmo): the homestead route with the board’s own homestead-review window
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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 assessors review homestead applications each year. The rating filter never hides this entry.

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