Terms Used In Iowa Code 425.6

  • Homestead: means the dwelling owned or rented and actually used as a home by the claimant during the period specified in subsection 2, and so much of the land surrounding it including one or more contiguous lots or tracts of land, as is reasonably necessary for use of the dwelling as a home, and may consist of a part of a multidwelling or multipurpose building and a part of the land upon which it is built. See Iowa Code 425.17
  • Person: means any individual, firm, association, partnership, joint stock company, joint adventure, corporation, trustee, agency, or receiver, or any legal representative of any of the foregoing. See Iowa Code 453A.42
  • year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1
 If a person fails to file a claim or to have a claim on file with the assessor for the credits provided in this subchapter, the person is deemed to have waived the homestead credit for the year in which the person failed to file the claim or to have a claim on file with the assessor.