Buncombe County Tax Department: Exclusion for Veterans with Service-Connected Disabilities

The exclusion is the State's, under G.S. 105-277.1C; see the North Carolina entry. The Buncombe County Tax Department decides claims (exemptions line 828-250-4915). What the county says. The page describes a "property tax exclusion for veterans who have a permanent and total service connected disability from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs", available also to "the widow of a qualifying veteran who has never remarried". Buncombe uses its own application forms, a Veteran Exclusion Real Estate Application and a Veteran Exclusion Personal Property Application (for a manufactured home listed as personal property), supported by the State's form NCDVA-9; it is a one-time application due before June 1, and the county audits accounts receiving relief from time to time. Where the page is wrong or narrower than the statute. The citation. It cites "North Carolina General Statute Section 105-277.1(c)". The section is 105-277.1C, a separate section; 105-277.1 is the elderly and disabled exclusion and has no veterans subsection. The same page calls the circuit breaker "105-277.1(b)", which is 105-277.1B. Look the statute up by its real number. Routes. The page names only a permanent and total rating. The statute also qualifies a veteran who received a specially adapted housing grant under 38 U.S.C. 2101, and an unremarried surviving spouse where VA has certified that the veteran's death was service-connected, with no rating needed in life. A spouse's claim is not limited to widows. Discharge. The page does not mention the statute's test, a character of service at separation that was honorable or under honorable conditions. Who certifies. The page says to call "the North Carolina Division of Veterans Affairs at 828-250-5726" for help with the NCDVA-9. That number is Buncombe County Veterans Services, 40 Coxe Avenue, Asheville, which certifies the form; the State agency is now the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. Late filing. G.S. 105-282.1(a1) lets the county accept an application after June 1 for good cause, for that year only. The page's elderly and disabled exclusion still gives an income limit of $36,700, two years out of date ($38,800 for 2026), which matters to a veteran comparing the two programmes.