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Tax administrator outlines homestead exemptions, circuit-breaker deferral and pending state changes
Summary
Alamance County's tax administrator briefed commissioners and the public on current homestead-exemption and circuit-breaker deferral rules, eligibility limits (age 65+, income cap cited), and proposed state legislation (Senate Bill 349) that would expand eligibility and change program mechanics.
Brad Fowler, Alamance County's tax administrator, briefed the board and the public on the county's existing property-tax relief programs for older and permanently disabled homeowners and described proposed state-level changes that could expand eligibility.
Fowler summarized the current homestead-exemption rules: applicants must be 65 or older (or permanently and totally disabled), be deeded owners as of Jan. 1 of the application year, and have income below a state threshold that Fowler cited as $37,900 for the current year. He said the homestead program…
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