Hawkins County (Tennessee) Trustee: State Tax Relief for Disabled Veterans and Their Widows

The Hawkins County Trustee, Jim Shanks, 110 East Main Street, Room 203, Rogersville (423-272-7022), takes applications for the State's property tax relief for disabled veterans by April 4 after the February 28 tax deadline; its page says income counts for the programme, which is true of the elderly and disabled relief but not of the disabled veteran relief.

Also called: tax relief, property tax, disabled veteran, widow, surviving spouse, Trustee, Jim Shanks, Church Hill office, 423-272-7022, 67-5-704, April 4, Rogersville, Church Hill, Mount Carmel, Surgoinsville, Bulls Gap, Eidson, Persia, Bean Station, Kingsport.

For: Veteran or service member, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Hawkins County, TNCounty

The relief is the State's, under Tennessee Code 67-5-701 to 67-5-705; the Tennessee entries carry its eligibility, amounts and deadlines. The Hawkins County Trustee's page: "We have a tax relief program for elderly, disabled and special disabled veterans. Income is a factor for the tax relief program. Proof of income is required." And: "the Trustee administers a State funded Tax Relief Program to help the elderly and disabled citizens pay their property taxes. For qualifying applicants, the State of Tennessee will pay a portion of the property taxes for their home. Application must be completed no later than April 4 after the February 28 tax payment deadline." Against the law. The income limit applies to the elderly and disabled homeowner relief of 67-5-702 and 67-5-703; the disabled veteran relief of 67-5-704 has had no income limit since 2016, so a disabled veteran or a surviving spouse should apply whatever the household income, with the VA rating letter. The State's deadline is 35 days after the taxes become delinquent (the Tennessee entry), and Hawkins taxes become delinquent on March 1, so confirm the last day with the Trustee rather than waiting for April 4. Where. Rogersville Courthouse Annex, 110 East Main Street, Room 203, Rogersville, TN 37857; 423-272-7022; 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays. A Church Hill office, 150 South Central (no mail), 423-357-4350, opens from mid-October to mid-March. A veteran inside a city that bills its own property tax applies to the city collecting official as well. The Veterans Service Office (423-272-5077) helps with the rating letter.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Hawkins County (Tennessee) Trustee: State Tax Relief for Disabled Veterans and Their Widows
Gate	Rule
Permanent and total, as VA determines it	The State relief the Hawkins County Trustee takes applications for. The rating route in 67-5-704(b)(3) asks for service-connected permanent and total disability as determined by VA, which a veteran paid at the total rate through unemployability that VA has found permanent also holds. It is recorded rather than enforced because the paraplegia, blindness and loss-of-limbs route and the prisoner of war route need no rating at all.
Or a named loss, at any rating	Paraplegia or permanent paralysis of both legs and the lower body, legal blindness, or loss or loss of use of two or more limbs from a service-connected cause qualifies whatever the combined rating, as does one hundred percent permanent total disability from having been a prisoner of war. The state entry on disabled veteran property tax relief sets out the routes.

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