Collin Central Appraisal District: Disabled Veteran Exemptions

The Collin Central Appraisal District states the 100% homestead exemption and the five-year late filing window as the Tax Code does, but keeps a surviving spouse's exemption only where the veteran qualified in the year of death, omits the $12,000 routes for veterans 65 or older, blind or with loss of a limb, and says nothing of the line-of-duty, donated home or presumptive-condition exemptions.

Also called: property tax, appraisal district, Collin CAD, CCAD, 11.131, 11.22, 11.439, homestead, surviving spouse, blind, loss of limb, McKinney.

For: Veteran or service member, child, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Collin County, TXCounty

The exemptions are the State's; the Texas entries explain them. The Collin Central Appraisal District grants them for property in Collin County. What the district gets right. Its FAQ states the 100% homestead exemption as section 11.131 does, unemployability included, says a veteran may apply any time in the year of qualifying, and gives the five-year late filing window of section 11.439 for a disabled veteran (and two years for a surviving spouse, which is the general rule). It gives the 11.22 amounts correctly and says the veteran picks one property to take them against. Where it is narrower than the statute. Surviving spouse. The FAQ says the spouse may continue the exemption "if the deceased veteran qualified for the exemption on the residence in the year they died". Section 11.131(c) also covers the spouse of a veteran who would have qualified had the exemption existed when the veteran died, which matters for a veteran who died before 2009, and section 11.131(d) lets the spouse move the dollar amount to a new home. The $12,000 routes. Section 11.22(b) gives the $12,000 maximum to a veteran who is 65 or older with a rating of at least 10%, totally blind in one or both eyes, or who has lost the use of a limb. The district's FAQ on the amount gives only the rating table. Missing exemptions. The site has nothing on the total homestead exemption for the surviving spouse of a service member killed in the line of duty (11.133), the donated homestead (11.132), or the 2025 exemption for the surviving spouse of a veteran who died of a condition presumed service-connected (11.136). Apply for them with the Comptroller's forms; see the Texas entries. Its FAQs also describe a disabled veteran as one "disabled while serving"; the statute asks only that VA or the service branch has classified the disability as service-connected, which includes conditions that appear after discharge. The district is on Eldorado Parkway in McKinney, at the northeast corner of College Street.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Collin Central Appraisal District: Disabled Veteran Exemptions
Gate	Rule
10% for the partial exemption; 100% or unemployable for the homestead	The partial exemption starts at 10%, and some routes need no percentage. The total homestead exemption needs 100% compensation with a 100% or unemployability rating. The surviving spouse exemptions need no rating.

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