Lumpkin County Tax Commissioner (Mike Young): the homestead route at the April 1 book closing with the State-set amounts

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 Lumpkin's offices add is the route and the county's own book-closing date. Where and who. Tax Commissioner Mike Young, 99 Courthouse Hill, Suite E, Dahlonega, GA 30533; phone (706) 864-2666, fax (706) 867-6010, [email protected]; the office is open "Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m." and closed 1:00-1:30 p.m. for lunch; Deputy Tax Commissioner Joy Knowles and the property-and-tag specialists sit in the same Suite E office. The office's own site, lumpkincountytax.com, carries the tax search and the news, and publishes no exemption amounts of its own. The General Information page: "An applicant seeking a homestead exemption shall file a written application with the Lumpkin County Board of Tax Assessors at any time during the calendar year subsequent to the property becoming the primary residence of the applicant up to and including the date for the closing of the books, which is April 1 for Lumpkin County ... Homestead applications received after that date will be applied to the next tax year." A Lumpkin veteran files with the Tax Assessor through the commissioner's Suite E office and reads the amounts on the State entries.