Ware County Tax Commissioner (Roger Collins) and the Board of Tax Assessors: the county’s own S5/SS veteran table at $50,000

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The Ware County Tax Commissioner - Roger Collins, 305 Oak Street, Suite 115A, Waycross, GA 31501 (P.O. Box 1825; 912-490-4305, fax 912-287-4468, [email protected], weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., warecountytax.com) - and the Board of Tax Assessors (Chief Appraiser Billy Carter, 305 Oak Street, 912-490-4383; the board at 305 Oak Street, Suite 154) take the exemptions with the county's own Homestead Exemptions table: "Veterans (S5, SS) - Must be 100% disabled-service connected; Letter from Veteran Affairs verifying disability; Unremarried surviving spouse or minor children may also qualify - Amounts deducted from Assessed Value (40% FMV): State-$50,000; County-$50,000; School-$50,000", the pre-indexing base amounts beside the State entries.

Also called: Tax Commissioner, Roger Collins, Billy Carter, Chief Appraiser, homestead exemption, disabled veteran, S5, SS, 48-5-48, 48-5-52.1, $50,000, 912-490-4305, 912-490-4383, 305 Oak Street, Suite 115A, Suite 154, warecountytax.com, qPublic, Waycross, Waycross, Deenwood, Sunnyside.

For: Veteran or service member, survivor.

Where it applies

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Ware County, GACounty

Where and who. Tax Commissioner Roger Collins, 305 Oak Street, Suite 115A, Waycross, GA 31501, mailing P.O. Box 1825, Waycross, GA 31502; phone (912) 490-4305, fax (912) 287-4468, [email protected]; "Monday - Friday 8:30AM - 5:00PM". The office's own site, warecountytax.com, carries the tax search, the forms and the county's Homestead Exemptions table, and its TREES Act notice records the county's timber-relief resolutions. The county's own veteran lines. The site's Homestead Exemptions page opens with the route - "All exemptions must be filed with the Tax Assessor's Office between the hours of 9:00am to 4:30pm, Monday through Friday. Georgia law allows for the year-round filing of homestead applications but the application must be received by March 1 of the year for which the exemption is first claimed" - and notes "Ware County has such local county exemptions. The Local County Exemptions supersede the State Exemptions when the Local Exemption amount is greater than the State Exemption amount." Its "Available Ware County Homesteads (these are State & Local exemptions combined)" table carries the veteran row: "Veterans (S5, SS). Must be 100% disabled-service connected. Letter from Veteran Affairs verifying disability. Unremarried surviving spouse or minor children may also qualify. Amounts deducted from Assessed Value (40% FMV): State-$50,000; County-$50,000; School-$50,000." Those are the statutes' pre-indexing base amounts; the State entries carry the current yearly indexed figures, and the filing office is the Tax Assessor - Chief Appraiser Billy Carter, 305 Oak Street, (912) 490-4383, with the Board of Assessors at 305 Oak Street, Suite 154. The assessors' qPublic record-search site was not read (the gap goes to docs/COUNTY-REVISIT.md).

Thresholds

Thresholds for Ware County Tax Commissioner (Roger Collins) and the Board of Tax Assessors: the county’s own S5/SS veteran table at $50,000
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 county’s own table prints the base amounts and the State entries the indexed ones. The rating filter never hides this entry.

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