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Show Ueteran's Corner Mr. O. L. Burton, in charge of the Roosevelt contact office of the Veterans Administration, today reminded Eastern Utah veterans that a State Statute provides for certain property tax exemptions for disabled veterans veter-ans rated at 25 per cent or more, and for the widows and minor children, or the orphaned children chil-dren of deceased veterans. On the basis of a $3,000 maximum maxi-mum tax evaluation limit on property, Sections 4 and 5 of Chapter 2, Title 80 of the 1943 Revised Statutes provides for an , exemption ration in exact proportion pro-portion to the degree of disability disabil-ity for disabled veterans, with the exception that a veteran must be at least 25 per cent disabled to qualify. This means that a veteran with a 30 per cent disability would be exempt from 30 per cent of his total property tax if the assessed valuation of his property pro-perty is $3,000 or less. He would, of course, pay regular rates on all assessed valuation above the S3.000-valuation. By the same token, a veteran rated with a 100 per cent disability disabil-ity would be exempt from all taxes on the first $3,000 of his property valuation. The VA further fur-ther points out that disabilities do not have to be service connected con-nected for the law to apply. I The same act further provides that the widows and minor children, chil-dren, or orphaned minor children chil-dren of deceased veterans are exempt from all property taxes up to the $3,000 assessed limitation. limita-tion. The law applies here regardless re-gardless of the time or cause of the veteran's death. For instance, the widow of a World War I veteran who had just been killed accidentally, would qualify under un-der the act. Applications for tax exemp-tions exemp-tions under the law may be secured se-cured from county tax offices. |