Henry County Disabled Veteran Vehicle Tax Exemption

Henry County applies the statewide one-vehicle exemption through the Commissioner of the Revenue: one automobile or pickup owned by the veteran or spouse and used primarily by or for the veteran is exempt from the county personal property tax. The Board set the personal property rate at $1.64 per $100 of assessed value for FY 2027 on May 5, 2026, the same for motor vehicles, machinery and tools. The county has no vehicle license fee left to waive. The 2026-27 budget eliminated the $20.75 motor vehicle license fee; on May 26, 2026 the Board repealed sections 8-800, 8-801, 8-802, 8-803 and 8-805 of the county code effective July 1, 2026, and section 8-809 effective December 1, 2026, so no county fee is charged on any vehicle from that date, and the bar on local license fees for Disabled Veteran plates (46.2-755(B), a Commonwealth entry) has nothing local to reach. Fees owed for prior years are still collected. Henry County sets no separate tax class for the vehicle of a veteran with limb loss, blindness, or a certified permanent and total service-connected disability, the local option in section 58.1-3506(A)(19) of the Code of Virginia; a veteran in that class who does not meet the 100% test pays the ordinary $1.64 rate, less the state car-tax relief. A resident of the Town of Ridgeway deals with the town for any town fee.