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FAQs - New Homestead Requirements

 

Effective September 1, 2011, House Bill 252 requires property owners applying for the residential homestead exemption submit new required documents indicating Travis County as their county of residence. In order to qualify for a residential homestead exemption you must provide with the Homestead exemption application copies of:

1. The applicants vehicle registration receipt
2. The applicants Texas driver’s license or Texas ID Card

The address on your driver's license or state ID card must match the physical address of the residence for which you are applying.

This address must also be the same address on your vehicle registration.

 

Remember: Your physical street address must match the address on your vehicle registration and both must match the address on your driver's license or state ID card. All three must have the same address.

Those applicants who do not own a vehicle will be required to submit a notarized affidavit certifying
that fact and provide a copy of a current utility bill. The address on the utility bill must be the same as the
address on the application for the homestead exemption.

If you have additional questions, please feel free to contact us at:
8314 Cross Park Drive, Austin, TX 78754 or you can call us at 512-834-9138.

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