Comal Appraisal District: Disabled Veteran and Surviving Spouse Exemptions

The exemptions are the State's; the Texas entries explain them. The Comal Appraisal District grants them for property in Comal County; forms go in person or by email to [email protected] while the online forms portal is replaced (830-625-8597, option 1). What the page gets right. The 100% disabled veteran homestead (section 11.131) on form 50-114 with a current VA letter showing 100% compensation and a rating of 100% or individual unemployability, with a surviving spouse able to continue it; the partial exemption under section 11.22 on form 50-135, from $5,000 at 10% to $12,000 at 70% and over, on any one property, with the full $12,000 at 65 or with blindness or loss of use of a limb; the donated-homestead exemption by rating; and that a disabled veteran can file up to five years late. What it narrows or leaves out. - The line-of-duty spouse. The page says the total exemption is for "a surviving spouse of a member of the U.S. armed services killed in action". Section 11.133 covers a member "killed or fatally injured in the line of duty", in combat or not. - PACT Act deaths. The page does not mention section 11.136, in force from the 2026 tax year, which exempts the homestead of the surviving spouse of a veteran who died of a condition the PACT Act presumes service-connected, whatever the veteran's rating; the Comptroller's current form 50-114 has a box for it. - Late filing. Its answer to "Can I apply for previous years?" says up to two years after delinquency for the residence homestead and the 100% disabled veteran exemptions. Section 11.439 requires the chief appraiser to accept a disabled veteran's application under section 11.131 up to five years after the delinquency date, as the same page's late-filing list says. The driver's licence address must match the homestead, except for active duty members and spouses, who can attach a military ID and a utility bill instead.