Cass County Assessors: Disabled Veteran Property Tax Credit intake

The credit is the State's, under Section 57-02-08.8, and the North Dakota entry explains its arithmetic: the disability percentage applied against the first nine thousand dollars of taxable valuation of the homestead, which is about a two-hundred-thousand-dollar house because taxable valuation runs at four and a half percent of true and full value. In Cass County the claim starts with an assessor. Where to start. The county's own Disabled Veteran Credit Program page names the three offices a first-time applicant contacts with a copy of the DD-214 "as well as the appropriate documentation to support your percentage of service-connected disability": Fargo, (701) 241-1340, 200 3rd St N; West Fargo, (701) 433-5340, 800 4th Ave E., Ste 1; and Cass County, (701) 241-5616, 211 9th St S. The county page adds that "All of this information will remain confidential" and encourages first-time applicants to contact their assessor before filing. The county's own description of the credit. The page says "The credit maxes out at $180,000 in value. The amount credited to your property is based on the disability or unemployability rating of the disabled veteran. A veteran with an 80 percent disability rating would receive a credit up to the first $144,000 in value on the property. 180,000 x .80 = 144,000." That figure is the county's own and does not follow from the statute's nine thousand dollars of taxable valuation, which is the ceiling the Tax Commissioner's page applies (100 percent of $9,000, 80 percent $7,200 and so on). A Cass County homeowner should expect the assessor to apply the statute's taxable-valuation ceiling; if quoted a larger figure, ask the assessor to show the computation. Deadline. The county page states none. The Tax Commissioner's current application, SFN 24770, says the application "must be filed with the county auditor by April 1 of the first year for which the credit is claimed"; an older version of the same form still served on tax.nd.gov says March 31, and the Tax Commissioner's program page says April 1 of the year the property is assessed. File by the earlier date to be safe. Afterwards the credit is applied automatically in later years, and the county commission's abatement lists show the credit in routine use across 2025 and 2026, with individual disabled-veteran reductions approved as consent items. A veteran who never applied for earlier eligible years can ask the commission, under Section 57-02-08.8(7), to cancel the unpaid taxes representing the credit for those years.