Onslow County Tax Office: Disabled Veteran Exclusion

The exclusion is the State's, under G.S. 105-277.1C; see the North Carolina entry. The Onslow County Tax Office decides claims, on the second floor of the Government Center, 234 NW Corridor Boulevard, Jacksonville (Land Records 910-989-2204). How it works in Onslow. Two steps, both in the same building. First fill in the State's form NCDVA-9 and take it to Onslow County Veteran Services, Suite 201, with a DD-214 showing the character of discharge and a VA benefit verification letter showing the permanent and total rating; the office certifies the form at the counter, or checks forms left in its drop box and returns them by post. Then file the certified NCDVA-9 with the State's form AV-9, the property tax relief application, at the Tax Office by June 1. The Tax Office calls it a one-time application, with no age or income test, for a home owned and occupied as of January 1, and the first $45,000 of appraised value of the home and up to one acre comes off the roll. Choose one programme. The Tax Office lists the three State relief programmes side by side: this one, the elderly or disabled exclusion (65 or totally disabled, the greater of $25,000 or half the value, under an income limit the page gives as $39,900, which is the Department of Revenue's figure for the 2027 tax year; for 2026 it is $38,800) and the circuit breaker deferment. A home can have only one of them. Where the county's pages are narrower than the statute. Three places. Discharge. The Tax Office page asks for an "honorably discharged disabled veteran". The statute asks for a character of service at separation that was honorable or under honorable conditions, so a general discharge under honorable conditions qualifies. The adapted housing route. The veterans office page describes only veterans "found permanently and totally disabled". The statute also qualifies a veteran who received a specially adapted housing grant under 38 U.S.C. 2101, with no permanent and total rating; the Tax Office page does list that route. Surviving spouses. The veterans office page names only "the surviving spouse of a deceased veteran, receiving Dependency and Indemnity Compensation". The statute qualifies an unremarried surviving spouse where the veteran died of a service-connected condition, but also where the veteran had been certified permanent and total or had received a section 2101 grant, whatever the cause of death and whether or not the spouse draws DIC. A spouse in that position should apply with the veteran's rating letter. Late filing. Neither page mentions it, but G.S. 105-282.1(a1) lets the county accept an application after June 1 for good cause, for that year only.