Rabun County Tax Commissioner (Lauren Benfield): the April 1 homestead route 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 Rabun's offices add is the route and the deadline. Where and who. Tax Commissioner Lauren Benfield, 19 Jo Dotson Circle, Suite 101, Clayton, GA 30525; phone (706) 782-3613; [email protected]; "Monday - Friday 8:00AM - 4:30PM, excluding major holidays." The office's own site, rabuncountytax.com, is a Government Window site whose search-and-pay runs under the same host and whose General Information page prints the ad valorem process: "The Rabun County, GA Tax Assessor is responsible for the appraisal, assessment, and the equalization of all assessments within the county ... In addition, they accept and approve all Homestead Exemptions claimed by the Taxpayers of Rabun County." And: "Property tax returns must be filed with the Board of Tax Assessors between January 1st and April 1st of each year. (Please note: the filing deadline for homestead exemption is also April 1)." The Board of Assessors' office seats Chief Appraiser Erik Blalock (706-960-9731) at 19 Jo Dotson Circle, Suite 121, (706) 782-5068, hours 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The qPublic record-search site (qpublic.net/ga/rabun) answers a Cloudflare-style block to plain fetch and was not read (the gap goes to docs/COUNTY-REVISIT.md). The route. A veteran files with the Tax Assessor's office before the April 1 deadline and reads the amounts on the State entries.