Botetourt County Disabled Veteran Real Estate Tax Exemption

Botetourt County’s Commissioner of the Revenue takes the statewide home exemption for a veteran rated 100% service-connected, permanent, and total, on the dwelling and up to two acres, because the county’s own elderly and disabled relief reaches two acres. No application form or documentation list is posted.

Also called: property tax, real estate tax, Daleville, Fincastle, Cloverdale, 100% disabled, two acres, TDIU, surviving spouse.

For: Veteran or service member, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Botetourt County, VACounty

In Botetourt County the Commissioner of the Revenue, Chris T. Booth, at 57 S. Center Drive in Daleville (540-928-2050, option for real estate; fax 540-473-8289), takes the statewide disabled-veteran real estate exemption. There is no income test. The county's Real Estate page asks for "Real Estate Tax Relief for Veterans with 100% Service-Connected Disability" to be arranged with the Commissioner's office; no application form, documentation list or acreage note is posted online. Acreage. The county's own tax relief for the elderly and disabled covers the qualifying dwelling and land not exceeding two acres (section 23-49 of the county code), so section 58.1-3219.5(C) of the Code of Virginia requires the veteran's exemption to cover two acres as well. Neither the county's page nor its forms say so; a veteran with more than one acre should check the bill and cite subsection C. The same rule carries two acres to a line-of-duty surviving spouse under section 58.1-3219.9(D). What it is worth. The Board of Supervisors adopted the 2026 tax rates on May 26, 2026 (Resolution 26-05-08), unchanged from 2025: real estate at $0.70 per $100 of assessed value, with the next reassessment due in 2028 after the 2024 one. Taxes are billed in September and due November 1; a 2% penalty applies within thirty days of November 5 and 10% thereafter, under section 23-2 of the county code. A veteran rated permanent and total on the basis of individual unemployability qualifies; the county's page does not mention it, and the Department of Veterans Services treats that rating as qualifying.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Botetourt County Disabled Veteran Real Estate Tax Exemption
Gate	Rule
100% permanent and total	Botetourt County applies the statewide exemption to the dwelling and up to two acres by section 58.1-3219.5(C). It does not add an income test. One path is a VA rating of 100% that is service-connected, permanent, and total.
Permanent and total on the 100% path	The 100% rating has to be permanent and total. A 100% rating VA has not made permanent does not meet this path.
Individual unemployability	The other path is a total disability rating based on individual unemployability that VA has also rated permanent and total.
Permanent and total on the unemployability path	Individual unemployability qualifies on this path only when VA has rated the disability permanent and total.

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