Stephens County Tax Commissioner (Dene Hicks) and the Board of Tax Assessors: the homestead route and the county’s own $50,000 veteran lines

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The Stephens County Tax Commissioner - Dene Hicks, 70 North Alexander St., Room 103, Toccoa, GA 30577 (706-886-4753, fax 706-886-0643) - and the Board of Tax Assessors (Chief Appraiser Michelle Orange, 70 N. Alexander St., Suite 101, 706-886-7435) take the homestead applications between January 1 and April 1; the county's own Homestead Exemptions page carries the $50,000 disabled-veteran exemption and the $50,000 unremarried-surviving-spouse exemption with their statutes (O.C.G.A. 48-5-48 and 48-5-52.1), the pre-indexing base amounts beside the State entries.

Also called: Tax Commissioner, Dene Hicks, Michelle Orange, Chief Appraiser, homestead exemption, disabled veteran, 48-5-48, 48-5-52.1, $50,000, 706-886-4753, 706-886-7435, 70 North Alexander St, Room 103, April 1, Toccoa, Toccoa, Eastanollee, Martin.

For: Veteran or service member, survivor.

Where it applies

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Stephens County, GACounty

Where and who. Tax Commissioner Dene Hicks, 70 North Alexander St., Room 103, Toccoa, GA 30577; phone (706) 886-4753, fax (706) 886-0643. The Board of Tax Assessors employs Chief Appraiser Michelle Orange, 70 N. Alexander St., Suite 101, Toccoa, GA 30577 (mail to P.O. Box 189), phone (706) 886-7435, fax (706) 886-0574; the assessors' notice names the season: "April 1 is the last day to: make application for Homestead Exemptions for current tax year ... file a property tax return." The county's Homestead Exemptions page opens the route: "In Stephens County, the application is filed with the Tax Assessors Office ... HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION FILING DATES ARE JANUARY 1st THROUGH APRIL 1st. Effective June 1, 2005 homestead exemptions may be filed for any time during the year." The county's own veteran lines. The page carries the State's exemption texts with their amounts: "Homestead Exemption for Disabled Veterans. Any qualifying disabled veteran may be granted an exemption of $50,000 from paying property taxes for state, county, municipal, and school purposes. The value of the property in excess of this exemption remains taxable. This exemption is extended to the unremarried surviving spouse or minor children. (O.C.G.A. 48-5-48)" and "Homestead Exemption for Unremarried Surviving Spouse. The surviving spouse of a member of the armed forces who was killed in any war or armed conflict will be granted a homestead exemption from all ad valorem taxes for state, county, municipal and school purposes in the amount of $50,000. The surviving spouse will continue to be eligible for the exemption as long as they do not remarry. (O.C.G.A. 48-5-52.1)." Those are the statutes' pre-indexing base amounts; the State entries carry the current yearly indexed figures a qualifying disabled veteran actually claims, and the assessors' office takes the application.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Stephens County Tax Commissioner (Dene Hicks) and the Board of Tax Assessors: the homestead route and the county’s own $50,000 veteran lines
Gate	Rule
Qualifying disabled veteran or surviving spouse who owns and occupies the home	The exemption follows O.C.G.A. 48-5-48 and 48-5-52.1; the page prints the statutes’ base amounts and the State entries the indexed ones. The rating filter never hides this entry.

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