Prince George's County and the Disabled Veteran Exemption

Prince George's County has not adopted the local disabled veteran credit in Tax-Property Article section 9-265 or either surviving spouse credit, so a veteran rated below 100% gets no county property tax credit for disability. Its credit under section 9-258, County Code section 10-235.28, is only for an owner of 65 who has lived in the home for 25 years; the county did not adopt that section's routes for military retirees or disabled service members. The county code, current to August 2026, has nothing more, and the county's 2026 Tax Facts sheet lists only the state exemption for veterans. That exemption, under section 7-208, is granted by the State Department of Assessments and Taxation for a veteran rated 100% service-connected, permanent, and total, or found permanently unemployable, and it is a State entry. Two county rules shape it here. Fees stay. The county's Tax Facts sheet says an exempt owner "will be exempt from all taxes but will still owe all fees such as solid waste charges". The same sheet describes the veteran as one certified "as completely and permanently disabled", which leaves out the permanent unemployability route that SDAT accepts. A veteran on that route still qualifies. The county refund is shorter than the statute. County Code section 10-144.01 has the Director of Finance refund county tax paid for any year the veteran qualified, once the assessor certifies the exemption, but limits a refund application to the current year and the three years before it. Section 7-208(g) makes the refund mandatory for every taxable year in which the exemption was authorized but not granted, as long as the veteran applies within the three-year period that begins with the calendar year of first eligibility, and SDAT measures that refund from the effective date of the disability. A veteran whose VA effective date is more than three years back should cite section 7-208(g), and section 7-208(h) adds interest when a county takes more than 60 days to pay.