Bloomfield Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions

The assessor’s Common Assessment Exemptions sheet gives regular veterans a $3,000 reduction on a DD-214 filed with the Town Clerk by September 30, and $6,000 for low income. Disabled and severely disabled veterans receive $6,000 to $10,500 off assessment with a VA rating of 10 to 100 percent, and the state additional (low income) veterans’ column gives $12,000 to $21,000 with a rating of 10 to 100 percent, for income up to $45,200 single or $55,100 married; the sheet’s footnote 2 adds that a veteran rated 100 percent has a maximum adjusted gross income of $18,000 single or $21,000 married, Social Security not counted. Those ranges exceed the amounts 12-81(19) and (20) and 12-81g provide in the 2026 Supplement; ask the assessor how the town computes them. The local additional (low income) veterans’ column gives $10,000 off assessment for income of $43,800, single or married. Code § 18-8, amended April 11, 2016, gives a veteran entitled under C.G.S. 12-81(19) and a surviving spouse entitled under 12-81(22) an additional exemption of up to $10,000 of assessed value from the October 1, 2016 assessment year, on meeting 12-81f’s requirements; the income limit is the town’s own. Code § 18-9, amended January 14, 2019, exempts in full the dwelling house and lot of a veteran who received federal specially adapted housing assistance, under 12-81(21)(C), applied for within thirty days of the October 1 assessment date. The assessor’s page adds that veterans with a 100 percent permanent and total service-connected rating should contact the office about the legislation effective October 1, 2024, which is the 12-81(83) dwelling exemption. OLR’s 2023 survey recorded Bloomfield as offering the 12-81f wartime option at $10,000 with the state limits, the specially adapted house option and the 12-81h vehicle option.