Roane County (Tennessee) Trustee: State Tax Relief and the Tax Freeze

The Roane County Trustee, Chris Mason, at the courthouse, 200 E. Race Street, Suite 4, Kingston (865-376-4938), takes the paperwork for the State's property tax relief - for veterans with certain service-connected disabilities, spouses of veterans killed in action, homeowners 65 or older or 100% disabled - and for the property tax freeze; the State makes the final determination.

Also called: tax relief, property tax, disabled veteran, killed in action, surviving spouse, tax freeze, Trustee, Chris Mason, 865-376-4938, 67-5-704, Pay Property Taxes, Kingston, Harriman, Rockwood, Oliver Springs, Midtown, Ten Mile, Oak Ridge.

For: Veteran or service member, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Roane County, TNCounty

The relief is the State's, under Tennessee Code 67-5-701 to 67-5-705; the Tennessee entries carry its eligibility, amounts and deadlines. The Roane County Trustee's page: "The State of Tennessee has a tax relief program available for homeowners age 65 or older or homeowners that are 100% disabled as well as veterans with certain service-connected disabilities, and for the spouse of veterans killed in action. The Trustee does the paperwork for the state. The State of Tennessee makes the final determination of eligibility. The applicants must live on the property and cannot receive benefits for the elderly in another state. There is also an income limit that changes each year." The freeze. The same page describes the property tax freeze adopted in 2007, which the Roane County Commission approved: "The role of the Trustee is to accept annual applications from eligible homeowners who desire to have the current tax rate frozen when the first application is filed. The amount of land cannot exceed 5 acres." (The freeze is the age-65 programme of 67-5-705; the disabled veteran relief has no income limit, so a disabled veteran should apply whatever the household income, with the VA rating letter.) Where. Trustee Chris Mason, 200 E. Race Street, Suite 4, P.O. Box 296, Kingston, TN 37763; 865-376-4938; [email protected]. Taxes are payable through the end of February and delinquent March 1; partial payments are accepted in the office, and payment is online at the Trustee's portal (a convenience fee the county does not keep). The Veterans Service Office (865-882-4015) helps with the VA rating letter.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Roane County (Tennessee) Trustee: State Tax Relief and the Tax Freeze
Gate	Rule
Permanent and total, as VA determines it	The State relief the Roane County Trustee takes the paperwork for. The rating route in 67-5-704(b)(3) asks for service-connected permanent and total disability as determined by VA, which a veteran paid at the total rate through unemployability that VA has found permanent also holds. It is recorded rather than enforced because the paraplegia, blindness and loss-of-limbs route and the prisoner of war route need no rating at all.
Or a named loss, at any rating	Paraplegia or permanent paralysis of both legs and the lower body, legal blindness, or loss or loss of use of two or more limbs from a service-connected cause qualifies whatever the combined rating, as does one hundred percent permanent total disability from having been a prisoner of war. The state entry on disabled veteran property tax relief sets out the routes.

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