Hays Central Appraisal District: Disabled Veteran Exemptions

The exemptions are the State's; the Texas entries explain them. The Hays Central Appraisal District grants them for property in Hays County, and its "Exemption Information & Requirements" page describes each one with a deadline and a document list. 100% homestead (Tax Code 11.131). A veteran awarded 100% compensation for a service-connected disability with a rating of 100% or individual unemployability gets the whole appraised value of the residence homestead exempt. The page adds what few districts say: if the 100% benefits were granted in the same year, the exemption is prorated from the date the veteran moved into the property. The deadline is April 30, and a late application may be filed up to five years after the delinquency date, which is section 11.439. Documents: a Texas driver licence or ID whose address matches the property, and a VA letter stating the veteran receives 100% benefits or is unemployable. Partial exemption (Tax Code 11.22). A veteran rated 10% or more gets the scheduled amount on one property, "but it does not have to be the veteran's homestead (primary residence)", the page says, and the top $12,000 goes to a veteran 65 or older rated 10% or more, totally blind in one or both eyes, or lost the use of one or more limbs. The same five-year late window applies. Documents: a VA letter stating the service-connected percentage and a Texas licence or ID - "the address on the license or ID does not have to match the address of the property", unlike the homestead application. Survivors. The page takes the 11.22 surviving spouse, the donated residence of a partially disabled veteran (11.132) with its surviving spouse, and the surviving spouse of a member killed in the line of duty (11.133), each with a two-year late window. What the page leaves out and gets wrong: - Moving. Section 11.131(d) lets a surviving spouse carry the 100% exemption's dollar amount to a later homestead; the page describes only the same-home continuation of 11.131(c). - A copy-paste error. The donated-residence surviving-spouse paragraph reads "if the year your spouse died is also a year in which your spouse qualified for the disabled person exemption" - it should name the donated-residence exemption; the sentence was copied from the disabled-person section above it. Filing. The district takes exemption applications online ("File a Homestead Exemption Application Online") and posts a county-specific 2025 residence homestead application, a form 50-114 that covers sections 11.13, 11.131, 11.132, 11.133, 11.134 and 11.432, and links the Comptroller's 50-135 for the partial exemption and survivors and the 50-114-a affidavits. Where. 21001 N. IH 35, Kyle, Texas 78640; 512-268-2522 or 512-713-0563; weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The chief appraiser is Laura Raven.