Placer County Assessor: Disabled Veterans' Exemption

The exemption is the State's; the California entry gives the amounts, the income limit and Senate Bill 296's larger exemption from the January 1, 2027 lien date. The Placer County Assessor administers it (530-889-4300). What the Assessor says. The exemption is for veterans "rated 100% disabled or 100% unemployable due to service connected injury or disease" and for unmarried surviving spouses of a qualifying veteran, of one whose death was service-connected, or of one who died on active duty. File form BOE-261-G with the full rating decision letter showing its effective date and a DD-214 showing a discharge other than dishonorable; a surviving spouse adds the marriage and death certificates and may send the DIC letter instead of the rating letter. The basic exemption is filed once; the low-income exemption every year by 5 p.m. on February 15, with the county's household income worksheet PCA-703. A claim is timely for a tax year if filed by December 31 of the year of the rating letter, or within 30 days of a supplemental assessment notice; later claims get a reduced amount, and refunds reach back to the current year plus seven prior years. The 2027 change. The page already describes SB 296 and says current claimants will get a letter at the end of December explaining what, if anything, to do for 2027; no action is needed before then. What it leaves out. Revenue and Taxation Code section 205.5 also qualifies a veteran blind in both eyes or who has lost the use of two or more limbs, at any rating. Such a veteran should file.