Metropolitan Trustee: Disabled Veteran Property Tax Relief in Nashville

Tennessee's disabled veteran property tax relief is a state payment toward the tax on the first $175,000 of a home's market value; the Tennessee entry on it sets out the three routes. In Davidson County the Metropolitan Trustee takes the applications for Metro taxes, in both the General Services District and the Urban Services District, at the Howard Office Building, 700 President Ronald Reagan Way, Suite 220, Nashville, Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. A home in a satellite city such as Belle Meade, Berry Hill, Forest Hills, Oak Hill, or the Davidson County part of Goodlettsville also pays that city's tax, for which the city takes its own application. When. For tax year 2026 the window runs from fall 2026 through April 5, 2027, thirty-five days after Metro taxes go delinquent, as 67-5-701(d) sets. Recipients must return their voucher every year by April 5 to stay enrolled. What to bring. The F-16 consent for VA (F-16S for a surviving spouse), the VA award letter, proof of ownership such as the tax bill or deed, and proof the home is the principal residence, a driver's licence showing the address or, if it differs, a voter card, car insurance statement or two utility bills. There is no income limit for veterans. Three places the Metro pages state the law wrongly. Payment. The Trustee's 2026 checklist says that to be considered "your application must be filed, and taxes must be paid in full by April 5, 2027". Section 67-5-701(d)(1) says the opposite: nothing in it requires payment of the full amount of taxes by the delinquency date as a condition of eligibility. A veteran who cannot pay the whole bill by April 5 should still apply by then. Routes. The Trustee asks a disabled veteran for proof of being "rated permanently and totally disabled from service connected". That is one route of three; paraplegia, legal blindness or loss of use of two limbs from a service-connected cause qualifies at any rating, and so does one hundred percent permanent and total disability from being a prisoner of war. For a surviving spouse it describes only the spouse of a veteran rated permanent and total, not the spouses subsections (f) and (g) cover, of a veteran whose death was service-connected and combat-related or of a service member who died on deployment. The cap. The Mayor's Office veterans page says relief "is paid on the first $100,000 of market value of the home". That was the cap from 2015 to July 1, 2017. It has been $175,000 since the IMPROVE Act. Metro money. The Trustee's page says the programme is funded by appropriations of the General Assembly and the Metropolitan Council, but it publishes no Metro amount or rule for veterans, and its table of 2026 credit limits by tax district is empty on the page. The Metro Code's own supplement, a low-income elderly programme in 5.20.080, expired in 2011. Ask the Trustee what the 2026 limit is for your district.