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Armed Forces Exemption — Ceiling × Your Rating

The exemption is a large taxable-value ceiling multiplied by your disability percentage — $535,459 for 2025 — from a floor of just 10%. It reaches survivors too: the unmarried surviving spouse and minor orphans of a veteran with a disability, or of a veteran who died as a result of military service, qualify in their own right.

Verified August 27, 2026

What this benefit is

The exemption is a large taxable-value ceiling multiplied by your disability percentage — $535,459 for 2025 — from a floor of just 10%. It reaches survivors too: the unmarried surviving spouse and minor orphans of a veteran with a disability, or of a veteran who died as a result of military service, qualify in their own right.

What it's worth: Taxable value off equal to $535,459 (2025, indexed) × your disability percentage

  • The ceiling indexes annually; the multiplication is by the percentage itself, so every 10% of rating shields roughly another $53,000 of taxable value.
  • The $535,459 ceiling remains the currently published figure.
  • The unmarried surviving spouse and minor orphans of a veteran with a disability, or of a veteran who died as a result of military service, are eligible.
  • First-time survivor documentation is a current VA letter confirming unmarried widow or widower status and the veteran's disability percentage at death, together with the death certificate.
  • The 1 September deadline may be extended to 31 December for good cause. A missed September date is not automatically fatal.
  • 2026 H.B. 124 clarified that the application is made once rather than annually.

Who is entitled to it

  • Your disability incurred in the line of duty is 10% or more.
  • The exemption runs against your primary residence.
  • Your home is in Utah.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

Deadline: September 1
  1. 1Apply with the county by September 1, with proof of military service and of the disability.
  2. 2Do the multiplication before you assume it is small: even 20% shields six figures of taxable value against the 2025 ceiling.
  3. 3Ask about pointing part of the exemption at tangible personal property such as a vehicle — Publication 36 allows it.
Form
Application with proof of service and disability
File with
The county where the property sits
Documents you will need
va benefit summary letter · dd214
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.
CorrectionThe 10% floor is the story. Veterans assume property relief starts at 50% or 100% because in most states it does; Utah shields ceiling-times-rating from 10% up, so a 30% veteran holding nothing in a neighbouring state shields roughly $160,000 of taxable value here.
Worth knowingThe unmarried surviving spouse and minor orphans qualify in their own right.
Known gapUtah also runs a nonrefundable income tax credit for military retirement pay; the credit arithmetic was not readable and it stays a candidate.

Sources

Why only one source type: The Tax Commission's Publication 36 states the ceiling, the proportional arithmetic, the 10% floor and the survivor routes. The statute host (le.utah.gov) refused the connection.

This finder provides an informational match, not a government eligibility determination. The responsible agency decides your application.