The Homestead Off the Roll at Total Disability
A service-connected total disability takes the homestead off the roll entirely — all ad valorem taxes — with the unremarried surviving spouse keeping it.
Verified August 19, 2026
What this benefit is
A service-connected total disability takes the homestead off the roll entirely — all ad valorem taxes — with the unremarried surviving spouse keeping it.
What it's worth: The homestead, exempt from all ad valorem taxes
- The exemption covers all ad valorem taxes on the homestead’s assessed value.
Who is entitled to it
- You meet the permanent and total test.
- You own and occupy the home.
- Your home is in this state.
Not sure whether that describes you?
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How to claim it
Deadline: April 1 (window opens January 1)- 1Apply in person at the county tax assessor between January 1 and April 1 — the window is statutory and missing it waits a year.
- 2Bring the VA benefits letter showing the service-connected total disability.
- 3An unremarried surviving spouse keeps the exemption — claim it rather than letting the roll revert.
- Form
- Homestead exemption application
- File with
- Your county tax assessor, January 1 to April 1
- Documents you will need
- va benefit summary letter
- No renewal
- Once granted it does not need renewing.
Sources
- authority · published policyMississippi Veterans Affairs — State Benefits (Miss. Code §27-33-67, §27-33-75)
Why only one source type: The state Veterans Affairs board states the exemption, the window and the survivor rule with the statutory cites.
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