Taxing,...

[SEATJERKER]

...just wondering how your veteran's status is different in regards to your tax exemptions,...

...In NY they offer a tax break to "war time Veterans" with/without service connected disabilities, or veterans that received the Armed forces expeditionary medal, it is under "real property law 458a, however it doesn't apply to just plain ole' "Service connected disabled vets,...

...what do the other states offer,...

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[DMZ-LT]

Curtis , only thing I get is a free drivers licence

[Stick]

Curtis, I think it has a lot to do with your local tax issues and your SC %. I'm just south of LT John and I'm also totaled. Our Business license cost us $1.00 a year and our first year cost us $75. We are still obligated to a full end year value added tax on our year end inventory and net value. This past year that meant $841 on a net value of $43201. Without my veteran status it would have cost us twice that.
License plates for the van are $1.00 a year. Buy me out and all I?ll owe is 5% Georgia Sales Tax and we can retire. I?ll even help you load your truck and give you a discount if you don?t mind an old fart with a stick taking a rest every once and a while.
I do not pay the school tax millage on our property tax, which is a significant savings of over $1000 a year.

[Packo]

South Carolina has many benefits for 100% SC vets. Other than that, we get nothing. Having a Purple Heart I get to buy the license plate, for the same cost as a regular one. Most states give a discount. They used to charge you extra calling it a "Vanity" plate. When I came here from NC I went to get a PH plate. When she told me the price I told her that's ridiculous. She says, "...well, it's no different than a "Shag" plate. I told her while they were shagging on the beach, I was shagging half my ass off in the jungle. Told her to keep her plate. Now it's regular price, redesigned and beautiful, and we get free meter parking in the whole state. It's a step in the right direction.

100%er's have no property taxes, house, car, school tax, get free plates, license, and free huntin' and fishin' privledges. I'm 30% away from nirvana.

Packo

[revwardoc]

Here in the Bay State I get free tuition from any state university, college or community college. Which doesn't amount to much since most of what used to come under tuition is now called academic "fees". But I'll take whatever discount I can get.

And at this point, I'm bragging. I made the Dean's List for the Spring semester at Mount Wachusetts CC, I'm in "Who's Who in American Junior Colleges", and I received a Community Service Award for my participation in an academic aid program and helping to set up a data base for government financial aid to students. No money came with this stuff, but it'll look good on a resume'.

[usmcsgt65]

Nevada gives a vet a break, small as it is, on either vehicle tax or home tax.

[Dragon Lady]

Curtis,
In NY State if you own your house you can apply for the Star program too. It is a great tax deduction for your annual income. All you have to do is apply and show a copy of your DD214. Heck even my husband who is a reservist is eligible.

And with you up there in Loudonville country you are really going to want that tax relief!

My motto, use it before you lose it.

[Seascamp]

The initial charge for Vet plates in Nevada is more than one would pay for a usual vanity plate. The up-charge supposedly becomes a donation to Vets care, or something along those lines. To heck with that rational for ripping-off a Vet for the sake of a Vet scenario I say. That?s just plain dumb and speaks to the contemptuous mentality we got going on in our State ?high places?.
I?ll stick with my ancient faded blue plates with white lettering and a quarter inch stack of expired registration stickers. In Nevada, the plates stay with the driver so ya can get some real salty looking plates going if ya care to. Besides, I?d have to memorize a new plate number and gawd only knows what I?ll forget if I memorize something new. Aarrgg, not unlike a pipe full of ping-pong balls where every time a new ball goes in and old one falls out and ya never know what is going to fall out. Scary stuff for sure. :ek:

Scamp

[darrels joy]

Seascamp,

Be careful driving with those blue plates around Clark County. Every once in a while, they put on the news that all blue plates must be turned exchanged for new ones (more money, of course) and there is a fine if you drive with blue ones on your car.

[Seascamp]

It would seem that one size does not fit all cuz we don?t get hassled for running blue plates at all. But then Clark Co. is all big city now so I suppose the rules and regs get complicated. Clark is about four hundred + miles south of here as the jackalope lopes so that tends to be a seperate deal and I'm not even sure we speak the same language as Clark anymore, maybe not.

Matter of fact, we can still order the blue plates if our salty ones get to where they cant be read. Mine carry the county designation where there is a county prefix then digits and that goes back a long ways. Actually mine have the Ormsby County prefix and there hasn?t even been an Ormsby County for at least fifteen years. Oh well, some of us are slow to accept change I reckon, LOL.

Scamp