Rutherford County Tax Administrator: Disabled Veterans Exclusion

Rutherford County's Revenue Department takes applications for the State's disabled veteran exclusion, for an honourably discharged veteran whose service-connected disability VA certifies as 100% permanently and totally disabling, or the unremarried surviving spouse; no age or income limit, a one-time application on form NCDVA-9, filed by June 1.

Also called: property tax, homestead exclusion, disabled veteran exclusion, 105-277.1C, NCDVA-9, $45,000, June 1, Tax Administrator, Revenue Department, Rutherfordton, Forest City, Spindale, Lake Lure, Ellenboro.

For: Veteran or service member, spouse, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Rutherford County, NCCounty

The exclusion is the State's, under G.S. 105-277.1C; see the North Carolina entry, which gives the $45,000 of assessed value it removes from tax. Rutherford County's Property Tax Relief page: "Exclusion for honorably discharged veterans whose disability is service connected and has been certified by the Department of Veterans Affairs as 100% permanently and totally disabling or the surviving spouse of an honorably discharged disabled veteran who has never remarried. There is no age or income requirement. One-time application is required." How and when. The page carries the Disabled Veteran Exclusion brochure and the Certification for Disabled Veterans, form NCDVA-9: "APPLICATIONS MAY BE TIMELY FILED UP TO AND THROUGH JUNE 1." The same page offers the elderly or disabled exclusion (2026 income limit $38,800) and the circuit breaker deferment ($58,200), which a veteran who misses the 100% test may still meet. Where the page is narrower than the law. "100% permanently and totally disabling" reads as a 100% schedular rating; the statute asks for a total and permanent service-connected disability, which a total rating through unemployability can meet, and it also reaches a veteran who received a specially adapted housing grant under 38 U.S.C. 2101. See the North Carolina entry.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Rutherford County Tax Administrator: Disabled Veterans Exclusion
Gate	Rule
Permanent and total service-connected disability	The rating path is a total and permanent service-connected disability. A section 2101 adapted housing grant qualifies instead; the filter cannot test that.

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