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Dawson County Tax Commissioner (Nicole Stewart Brooksher) and the Board of Tax Assessors: the warranty-deed route and the exemption detail held on the unreadable assessors’ site

The Dawson County Tax Commissioner - Nicole Stewart Brooksher, 25 Justice Way, Suite 1222, Dawsonville, GA 30534 (706-344-3520, [email protected], weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., dawsoncountytax.com) - points the homestead detail at the Tax Assessor's Office: the Catalis site's FAQ reads "bring a copy of your warranty deed to the Tax Assessor's office between January 2 and April 1" and "Contact the Dawson County Tax Assessor's Office for details of the available exemptions"; the assessors' own site (dawsonassessors.com, Chief Appraiser Elaine Garrett, 25 Justice Way, Suite 1201, 706-344-3590) answers a Cloudflare challenge and its qPublic record-search site was not read, so the veteran amounts remain the State's.

Also called: Tax Commissioner, Nicole Stewart Brooksher, Elaine Garrett, Chief Appraiser, Kandi Bolton, Brent Covington, Roxanne Howard, homestead exemption, disabled veteran, 48-5-48, 48-5-52.1, 706-344-3520, 706-344-3590, 25 Justice Way, Suite 1222, dawsoncountytax.com, dawsonassessors.com, April 1, Dawsonville, Dawsonville.

For: Veteran or service member, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

The exemptions are Georgia's: O.C.G.A. 48-5-48 for the qualifying disabled veteran and 48-5-52.1 for the unremarried surviving spouse of a service member killed in a war or armed conflict - the State entries carry the statutes, the qualification list and the yearly indexed amount. What Dawson's offices add is the route. Where and who. Tax Commissioner Nicole Stewart Brooksher, 25 Justice Way, Suite 1222, Dawsonville, GA 30534 (inside the courthouse in downtown Dawsonville); phone (706) 344-3520, [email protected]; "Office Hours: Monday- Friday 8:00 am - 5 pm", with payments by phone at 706-701-2576 and the 2026 tax bills due December 1st, 2026. The office's own site, dawsoncountytax.com, is a Catalis script-rendered app that was read in a browser session; its pages publish no exemption text of their own. The FAQ's route: "To apply for homestead exemption bring a copy of your warranty deed to the Tax Assessor's office between January 2 and April 1. To qualify you must both own and occupy your home as of January 1 ... application for homestead exemption may be submitted any time during the year but must be received before April 1 of the taxable year to qualify for the exemption that year", and "Is there a way to reduce my tax bill? Yes. There are several exemptions and special assessment programs available ... Contact the Dawson County Tax Assessor's Office for details of the available exemptions." The assessor. The Tax Assessor's Office sits at 25 Justice Way, Suite 1201, Dawsonville, (706) 344-3590, with Chief Appraiser Elaine Garrett; the Board of Assessors - Kandi Bolton (term ends December 2027), Brent Covington (December 2026) and Roxanne Howard (December 2026) - meets at 8:30 a.m. on the second Tuesday of every month in Conference Room 1213. The assessors' own site, dawsonassessors.com, answers a Cloudflare-style challenge, and the qPublic record-search site was not read either (the gaps go to docs/COUNTY-REVISIT.md); a qualifying disabled veteran reads the amounts on the State entries and files with the assessors.

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Thresholds for Dawson County Tax Commissioner (Nicole Stewart Brooksher) and the Board of Tax Assessors: the warranty-deed route and the exemption detail held on the unreadable assessors’ site
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Qualifying disabled veteran or surviving spouse who owns and occupies the homeThe exemption follows O.C.G.A. 48-5-48 and 48-5-52.1; the county offices take the application and publish no veteran amounts of their own. The rating filter never hides this entry.

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