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Full Property Tax Exemption for 100% Disabled Veterans — and a Surviving Spouse Who Can Move

The whole bill on your principal residence and up to an acre — more where your locality already exempts more. A surviving spouse qualifies where the veteran died on or after 1 January 2011, until remarriage, and unusually the exemption is not tied to the house: the spouse may move to a different principal place of residence and keep it.

Verified August 27, 2026

What this benefit is

The whole bill on your principal residence and up to an acre — more where your locality already exempts more. A surviving spouse qualifies where the veteran died on or after 1 January 2011, until remarriage, and unusually the exemption is not tied to the house: the spouse may move to a different principal place of residence and keep it.

What it's worth: 100% of your property tax bill, on the dwelling and up to one acre

  • We do not hold Virginia county tax rates, so we cannot convert this into a dollar figure for your county.
  • A surviving spouse qualifies where the veteran's death occurred on or after 1 January 2011. Eligibility ends on remarriage.
  • The exemption applies without any restriction on the surviving spouse moving to a different principal place of residence — the entitlement follows the person, not the property.
  • Where a locality exempts more than one acre under other provisions, it must exempt the same acreage under this section.
  • A manufactured home is exempt even where the veteran does not own the land beneath it.

Who is entitled to it

  • You served in the U.S. armed forces.
  • The VA has rated you 100% service-connected, permanent and total.
  • You own and occupy the home as your principal residence.
  • Your home is in Virginia.

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

  1. 1Get a VA letter showing the finding this relief turns on, and file it with your Commissioner of the Revenue.
  2. 2Ask what happens if your rating or occupancy changes — that is what ends most granted reliefs.
Form
Local exemption application
File with
Your commissioner of the revenue
Documents you will need
va benefit summary letter · dd214
Automatic until something changes
Granted once and carried forward. You must report a change in ownership, occupancy or status.
Worth knowingThe acre limit is a floor, not a ceiling. Where a locality already exempts or defers more than one acre for other purposes, §58.1-3219.5 requires it to exempt the same acreage here — so on a larger parcel the answer depends on what your county does for everyone else.
Worth knowingThe surviving spouse provision has a hard date in it: the veteran's death must have occurred on or after 1 January 2011, and the spouse must not have remarried. A death in 2010 leaves the spouse outside it.

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