Ansonia Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions

The assessor’s veterans sheet says a veteran may be entitled to an exemption on property owned October 1 upon meeting the state’s qualifying dates of service, that a DD-214 with an honorable discharge must be filed on the land records prior to October 1, and that exemption amounts vary; it then lists the war periods C.G.S. 27-103 provides for eligibility under 12-81(19), from the Spanish-American War through the Persian Gulf War, with the footnotes on 90 cumulative days and the October 1, 1977 recording grace. Code § 25A-3, adopted by ordinance December 8, 2015, exempts from personal property taxation, pursuant to C.G.S. 12-81c, any ambulance-type motor vehicle used exclusively to transport a medically incapacitated individual, except one used for profit. OLR’s 2023 survey recorded Ansonia as offering the specially equipped vehicle exemption instead - the 12-81h option for a vehicle of a veteran or service member eligible under 12-81 - which the code does not carry; the survey also recorded no 12-81f or 12-81g(b) option. The wartime exemption itself is $1,000 of assessed value under C.G.S. 12-81(19), with the 12-81g(a) additional exemption of twice that for income under the 12-81l limit. Ask the assessor which vehicles Ansonia exempts and on what terms.