Homestead Deduction And Senior Citizen Or Disabled Property Owner Application

Homestead Deduction And Senior Citizen Or Disabled Property Owner Application - District F Columbia Page 4

GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

OFFICE OF TAX AND REVENUE

New arrival to the District of Columbia

If you are not registered to vote in the District of Columbia and/or obtained a District driver’s license, in order to preliminarily qualify, check

“Yes” in the applicable boxes and write “pending” in the margin to the right, and you must within 30 days from settlement: register to vote in the

District or at least cancel any voter registration in any other jurisdiction; obtain a District driver’s license (if applicable); register your car in the

District (if applicable); and, file with your employer a new District Form D-4, Employee Withholding Allowance Certificate, which indicates the

District as the jurisdiction to which income taxes withholding will be paid (if applicable).

Instructions

The Homestead and Senior Citizen or Disabled Property Owner Application

If a properly completed and approved application is filed from October 1 to March 31, the property will

receive these tax relief benefits for the entire tax year (and for all tax years in the future). If a properly completed and

approved application is filed from April 1 to September 30, the property will receive one-half of the benefit reflected

on the second-half tax bill (and full deductions for all tax years in the future). Homestead Deduction and Senior

Citizen or Disabled Property Owner Tax Relief apply beginning with the period when the application is filed;

you cannot obtain such tax relief benefits retroactively, even if you lived in the property.

If you enter these programs but at a future date no longer meet the eligibility requirements, you must notify

us in writing and within 30 days at the following address: Office of Tax and Revenue, Real Property Tax

Administration, 941 North Capitol Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002 – Attn: Homestead Deduction, Senior

Citizen/Disabled Property Owner Tax Relief Cancellation. If you fail to provide written and timely notification as

instructed, you may have to pay a penalty of 10% of the delinquent tax and 1.5% interest on such tax for each

month that the property wrongfully received the benefit(s). This application and continued eligibility for these

tax benefits are subject to periodic audit. Please keep all supporting documentation.

Rev 7/09

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