You can get information about your property tax benefits, including: Application status, Current benefit amounts, Proposed benefit for the upcoming tax year. Exemption applications must be filed with your local assessor's office.See our Municipal Profiles for your local assessor's mailing address. Complete the Homestead Declaration form. The form must be printed legibly in black ink. The low-income category is a new category of homestead exemption for Athens-Clarke County property owners who meet federal poverty guidelines. You must file exemption applications with your local assessor's office. See Municipal Profiles for your local assessor's mailing address. This is a program put into place to help manage large assessment increases on your property taxes of your personal residence here in Maryland. The Assessor's Office maintains the official real property mailing address records for Clark County.