If you are an Arkansas resident veteran with a 100 percent total and permanent service-connected disability rating, or you receive Special Monthly Compensation for the loss or loss of use of one or more limbs or total blindness in one or both eyes, you pay no property tax at all on your homestead and personal property. An unremarried surviving spouse and dependent children keep the exemption. A surviving spouse who remarried can have the exemption reinstated if that later marriage ends.
Apply through the county assessor and collector office where you live, not the state. You have to be recertified every year to keep the exemption.
Your VA documentation of the 100 percent total and permanent rating or the Special Monthly Compensation award, proof of Arkansas residency, and for a surviving spouse or dependent child, proof of the relationship and the veteran’s death or casualty paperwork.
