Hart County Tax Commissioner (Karen Martin): the Government Window portal’s exemption rundown, the warranty-deed route and the April 1 deadline

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 Hart's offices add is the route and the portal's own text. Where and who. Tax Commissioner Karen Martin, Hart County Courthouse, 165 W. Franklin St., Room #4, Hartwell, GA 30643, P.O. Box 748, (706) 376-3944, [email protected] ([email protected] on the portal), weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; the courthouse payment drop box stands on the Forest Avenue side. The office's own site, hartcountypay.com, is a Government Window portal whose tax search runs at hartcountyga.governmentwindow.com. The exemption text. The portal's General Information page is served as static text and carries the full rundown: homestead applications are "filed with the Hart County Tax Assessor's Office. First time homeowners need to bring a copy of their warranty deed to insure their application is filed correctly"; "the Board of Assessors makes the final determination as to eligibility"; "Georgia law allows for the year-round filing of homestead applications but the application must be received by April 1"; and "Hart County has such local county exemptions" besides the State list. The State list's veteran rows: "The Disabled Veterans Homestead Exemption is available to certain disabled veterans in an amount up to $50,000 deducted from the 40% assessed value of the homestead property. This exemption applies to all ad valorem tax levies; however, it is restricted to certain types of very serious disabilities (that are service-connected disabilities) and proof of disability, either from the Veterans Administration or from a private physician in certain circumstances. A similar exemption in the same amount is now available to the un-remarried surviving spouse of a member of the armed forces of the United States who was killed in any war or armed conflict engaged in by the United States." The county's own Tax Commissioner page on hartcountyga.gov adds the assessor's route for exemption questions - "Hart County Tax Assessors, PO Box 810, Hartwell, GA 30643, 706-376-3997" - and the April 1 return line; the Board of Tax Assessors' qPublic record-search site was not read (the gap goes to docs/COUNTY-REVISIT.md).