Denver Assessor's Office: Disabled Veteran Property Tax Exemption

The exemption is the State's; see the Colorado entry. Since January 1, 2024 applications go to the county assessor, and in Denver that is the Assessor's Office in the Department of Finance, 201 W. Colfax Avenue, Department 406 (720-913-4162; [email protected]). The forms are right. The Assessor posts the State's 2025 application and instructions for qualifying veterans with a disability. They ask for a service-connected disability rated 100% permanent, medical retirement at 100%, or individual unemployability, with the VA Summary of Benefits letter, and say a veteran with unemployability "shall be treated equivalently" to one rated 100% permanent. Applications must be postmarked or delivered by July 1. Once granted, the exemption stays on the home until something changes. The Assessor also posts the surviving spouse and Gold Star spouse forms. Two dates, two programmes. Denver's page gives the senior exemption a July 15 deadline, and the veteran exemption, on the same page, July 1, which is what the statute set for 2026. Do not rely on the senior date. C.R.S. 39-3-206 lets a veteran who missed July 1 ask the Assessor to accept a late application for good cause, up to August 1 in 2026, and Senate Bill 26-046 moves the veteran deadlines to July 15 and August 15 from the 2027 filing season (its sections 8 and 9 take effect January 1, 2027). What the page leaves out. The page says the home must be "owned and occupied by the qualifying disabled veteran"; the instructions add that a veteran whose spouse owns the home qualifies if they were married and both lived there by January 1, and that a trust held for estate planning counts. The instructions, which follow the State's template, also say the veteran "was honorably discharged"; C.R.S. 39-3-202 asks for separation under honorable conditions, which includes a general discharge. A denial letter explains the appeal to the county board of equalization.