Portage County Auditor: Disabled Veteran Homestead Exemption

The exemption is the State's, under Revised Code 323.152(A)(2); see the Ohio entry. File DTE 105I, with the DD-214 and the VA award letter, with the Portage County Auditor, Matt Kelly, fifth floor of the Portage County Administration Building at 449 South Meridian Street, Ravenna (330-297-3565; the homestead desk is 330-297-3571), after January 1 and by December 31 of the year the exemption is wanted. There is no income test for the disabled veteran exemption. The page. The Auditor's homestead page lists the DTE 105I application for disabled veterans and surviving spouses beside the DTE 105A and DTE 105K forms and a brochure, and prints no dollar amounts at all, so the reduction is the State's: $58,000 for tax year 2025 and $59,400 for tax year 2026 real property, the year now being filed, under Revised Code 323.152(A)(2) and 323.151. Section 323.151(F) counts a veteran paid at the 100 per cent rate for individual unemployability, so a veteran with a lower schedular rating but IU compensation qualifies and should file DTE 105I with the unemployability decision. The local option. House Bill 96 let each board of county commissioners add a county homestead credit equal to the State one, without State reimbursement (Revised Code 319.304). Nothing in the commissioners' October 2025 to September 2026 minutes adopts it. Discussing a senior levy on November 20, 2025, Commissioner Sabrina Christian-Bennett said "you can't assume that by doubling Homestead it helps the population. Not every senior is on Homestead and not every senior owns a house" - the board's only recorded words on the option, and no adoption followed.