Family and household tax returns in Burns

County

Dickson County

Property tax (per $100 assessed, 2025)

1.69 + 0.3333 = 2.0233

Sales tax, combined

9.75%

County Trustee

Glynda B. Pendergrass · Charlotte

Assessor of Property

Jenny Heath Martin · Charlotte

Population, 2020 → 2024

1,582 → 1,872

State and city business tax

Filed with the TN Department of Revenue

Straight-line distance

28 miles from Franklin

Sources: TN Comptroller, TN Department of Revenue, U.S. Census Bureau. Details

A married couple in Burns filing jointly has a 2026 standard deduction of $32,200. A head-of-household filer gets $24,150, and a single filer or a spouse filing separately gets $16,100. The IRS announced those amounts in October 2025, in Revenue Procedure 2025-32.

Itemizing only pays off when deductions top those figures, so the comparison is worth making every year. Haven makes it when preparing the return and again when planning the next one. A family whose deductions sit near the line may find the answer flips from one year to the next. More on personal tax preparation.

Four deductions created by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act run from tax year 2025 through 2028. Tips are deductible up to $25,000 and overtime up to $12,500 ($25,000 on a joint return), each phasing out above $150,000 of modified adjusted gross income, or $300,000 joint. Taxpayers 65 and older get $6,000 each, and car loan interest is deductible up to $10,000.

Each has its own income test, so a Burns household may qualify for one and not another. The car loan deduction, for instance, starts phasing out at $100,000, or $200,000 for joint filers, while the senior deduction begins at $75,000. Haven checks all four during tax planning.

Burns property is taxed at 2.0233 per $100 of assessed value for tax year 2025, combining Dickson County’s 1.69 with the town’s 0.3333. Those figures are from the Comptroller of the Treasury’s 2025 Tax Aggregate Report. Burns had an estimated 1,872 residents in July 2024, up from 1,582 at the 2020 Census base.

Dickson County’s offices are in Charlotte, and both use post office boxes. Payments go to Trustee Glynda B. Pendergrass at PO Box 246, Charlotte 37036; Assessor of Property Jenny Heath Martin uses PO Box 270. Burns is 28 miles from the center of Franklin, and White Bluff has a page of its own on our service areas list.