Chesterfield County Disabled Veteran Real Estate Tax Exemption

This is how Chesterfield County applies the statewide disabled-veteran real estate exemption. The Commissioner of the Revenue takes the application, online through the Citizen Portal or on the county's combined real estate and vehicle form. There is no income test and no net-worth test, and the veteran does not reapply each year. Acreage is the local difference. Chesterfield's elderly and disabled relief covers the dwelling and up to ten acres under section 9-24 of the County Code, so section 58.1-3219.5(C) of the Code of Virginia requires the veteran exemption to cover ten acres too. The county's 2026 application says the exemption "applies to the home and up to 10 acres". Section 9-33(a) of the County Code, last amended in 2016, still says "up to one acre". The application and the statute govern. A garage or shed used for vehicles or household goods, and not for a business, is exempt with the land. The county asks for the VA letter giving the date the disability became permanent. A co-owned home is exempted by the veteran's ownership share. A veteran who is buying can ask for pre-approval before closing under section 58.1-3219.6(B); the county grants final approval once the veteran shows a Virginia driver's license with the new address. A surviving spouse qualifies when the veteran died on or after January 1, 2011 and the spouse has not remarried. The Commissioner's page follows the statute and lets the spouse's exemption move to a new home. Section 9-33(b) of the County Code still carries the pre-2019 wording that the spouse "continues to occupy the real Property"; section 58.1-3219.5(B) of the state code overrides it. The page asks a veteran who predeceases a spouse to have the spouse tell the Commissioner at once, and anyone who moves or changes ownership to call the office.