Danbury Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions

Danbury’s assessor pages give the basic veterans’ exemption as $1,500 off assessment, with discharge papers filed with the Town Clerk by September 30. The disability exemption under C.G.S. 12-81(20) runs by rating: up to $3,000 at 10 to 25 percent, $7,500 at 26 to 50, $9,000 at 51 to 75, and $10,500 at 76 to 100 percent or for a veteran over 65 with any rating of 10 percent or more. A veteran rated permanently and totally disabled at 100 percent has the primary dwelling exempt under 12-81(83), applying by December 31 each year with a current VA letter. The City Local Veterans Exemption under 12-81f is up to 10 percent of assessed value, real estate or motor vehicle, with a maximum of $10,000. Its page prints income limits for the 2022 grand list of $63,100 single and $71,400 married, and the state additional page the 2022 limits of $38,100 and $46,400; neither has been updated since. Code § 44-57 sets the local limit at $25,000 above the 12-81l amount, so it moves each year, and caps the city’s total for the exemption at $400,000 a year, the assessor setting each year’s level within it. Code § 44-58, adopted as Ord. No. 16 on December 2, 2014, adopts the 12-81g(b) option from the October 1, 2014 grand list: three times the 12-81(20) exemption for a veteran rated 100 percent, in place of twice under subsection (a). It prints income limits of $18,000 single and $21,000 married “or such amounts as may be set forth” in 12-81g, whose subsection (b) limits are now $21,000 and $24,000. The assessor’s pages do not mention it, and Danbury told OLR’s 2023 survey it did not offer it. Ask the assessor. Code § 44-60 exempts in full one specially equipped vehicle.