Chatham County Veterans Business License: Probate Court and Free Occupational Tax Certificate

The exemption is the State's, under chapter 12 of Title 43; see the Georgia entry on the disabled veteran business occupation tax exemption. Probate Court. Chatham's Probate Court takes the application for the certificate of eligibility by appointment with its Record Room, with no fee. Bring a current driver's license or government ID with your address, the DD-214 and a current VA summary of benefits letter. Its page describes the three groups the statute covers (disabled war veterans, blind persons, and peacetime veterans disabled in service) but not the statute's income test: section 43-12-3 requires an affidavit before the judge that you owe no Georgia income tax. The county certificate. Chatham County Code section 16-117 has a veteran operating in unincorporated Chatham under the Department of Veterans Service's certificate apply to the Occupational Tax Section for a free occupational tax certificate, giving the business's location and operations, subject to the usual conditions for approval. It then says: "No person other than the applicant may be employed by such business." Chapter 12 of Title 43 limits the exemption to the one business on the certificate and bars letting another person use it, but says nothing about employees; a veteran who needs staff should raise the State statute with the county. Inside Savannah, Pooler, Tybee Island and the other cities, the city's own business tax office applies the State certificate.