Retirement-year tax help in Walterhill

County

Rutherford County

Property tax (per $100 assessed, 2025)

1.8762 county (unincorporated)

Sales tax, combined

9.75%

County Trustee

Teb Batey · Murfreesboro

Assessor of Property

Rob Mitchell · Murfreesboro

Population, 2020 → 2024

Unincorporated; the Census publishes no city estimate

State and city business tax

Filed with the TN Department of Revenue

Straight-line distance

27.3 miles from Franklin

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

Walterhill taxpayers aged 65 or older can each deduct $6,000 for tax years 2025 through 2028, under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. A married couple in which both spouses are 65 or older gets $6,000 apiece. The deduction phases out above $75,000 of modified adjusted gross income for a single filer and $150,000 for a joint return.

Because of that income test, the figures are checked every year rather than assumed. Haven looks at the senior deduction alongside the 2026 standard deduction ($32,200 on a joint return, $16,100 for a single filer) when preparing a personal return and again when planning the next one.

No. Tennessee repealed the Hall income tax for tax periods beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and the Department of Revenue tells taxpayers not to file a Hall return for any of those years. Interest and dividends a Walterhill retiree receives today still belong on the federal return.

The repeal didn’t change federal treatment of that income, so the planning still happens on the Form 1040. Chris Bryant, one of Haven’s co-founders, holds the CFP® mark, and the firm works with the other advisors a client already has when a tax question touches their plans. That coordination is part of tax advisory, along with projections for the coming year.

Walterhill property is taxed only at Rutherford County’s rate, 1.8762 per $100 of assessed value for tax year 2025, because Walterhill is a census-designated place without a city government. Inside Murfreesboro the city’s 0.9526 is added on top, which brings the combined rate there to 2.8288.

Bills are paid to the Rutherford County Trustee, Teb Batey, by mail at PO Box 1316, Murfreesboro 37133, and assessments come from Rob Mitchell, Assessor of Property. Walterhill is 27.3 miles from the center of Franklin. Other communities we serve are on the service areas page, and Murfreesboro has its own.