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Darien Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions

Darien’s guide prints the wartime filing terms, the rating-based disabled exemption, the 12-81(83) dwelling exemption, the state additional at twice the basic, and a local additional exemption of 10 percent of net assessment at income of $71,300 single and $81,500 married.

Also called: property tax, 12-81g, veterans exemption, assessor, Darien.

For: Veteran or service member, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Town of Darien, CTTown

The assessor’s guide to assessment exemption and benefits requires the DD-214 with the town clerk by September 30 and 90 days of wartime service for the regular exemption, takes the VA disability rating slip by October 1 for the disabled exemption, and, for veterans rated 100 percent permanently and totally disabled, applies the dwelling exemption of 12-81(83) - or one motor vehicle if the veteran owns no dwelling - with the annual OPM application due January 1, as the guide quotes the 12-93 claim requirements added by Public Act 24-46. The state additional veterans’ exemption doubles the basic assessment exemption at the state’s 2025 income limits of $46,300 single and $56,500 married, the limits for the 2026 grand list, filed February 1 to October 1. The local additional veterans’ exemption, adopted by the RTM on October 23, 2017, is a 10 percent reduction on the net assessment for income of $71,300 single and $81,500 married, filed in the same window. The guide also carries a motor vehicle exemption for those currently serving in the armed forces: one passenger motor vehicle exempt for a member on active duty, on the annual form with the commanding officer’s signature confirming “on active duty.” The guide’s “Specially Adapted Motor Vehicle Exemption” section grants a total exemption to any motor vehicle specially equipped or modified in a significant way for the purpose of transporting medically incapacitated individuals, on the Specially Equipped Vehicles Exemption Application completed annually by October 3rd. The guide also names a local veteran’s exemption “by Town ordinance” with no income requirement and prints no amount for it, and carries the surviving spouse of an entitled veteran the same exemption. Darien’s code of ordinances on Municode carries no veterans’ article, so the ordinance is not codified there.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Darien Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions
Gate	Rule
Wartime service or a VA rating, set by state law	The exemptions rest on C.G.S. 12-81(19) to (26): 90 days of wartime service with a qualifying discharge filed with the town clerk, or a VA disability rating. Amounts above the base turn on rating and income. The rating filter does not hide this entry.

Figures

Each figure is dated with the day it was read. A local figure moves whenever the statute or the local ordinance does, so confirm it with the office that grants it before you rely on it. Statute verified gives the day the weekly section check last found the statute standing on the legislature’s own code site; a figure without it rests on a statute the check does not read yet.

Dated figures for Darien Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions
Figure	Amount	Read from
Wartime exemption, as Darien’s guide prints it	On the DD-214 filed with the town clerk by September 30 and 90 days of wartime service; 100 percent disabled veterans need not meet the 90-day requirementC.G.S. § 12-81(19)	Town of Darien, Guide to Assessment Exemption & BenefitsRead 2026-10-16
Disabled veteran exemption, as Darien’s guide prints it	Determined by the percentage of disability, on the VA rating slip provided to the assessor by October 1C.G.S. § 12-81(20)	Town of Darien, Guide to Assessment Exemption & BenefitsRead 2026-10-16
Permanent and total disability dwelling exemption, as Darien’s guide prints it	The dwelling owned and lived in as the primary residence, or one motor vehicle if the veteran owns no dwelling, on the annual application by January 1C.G.S. § 12-81(83)	Town of Darien, Guide to Assessment Exemption & BenefitsRead 2026-10-16
Active duty motor vehicle exemption, as Darien’s guide prints it	One passenger motor vehicle exempt for a member of the armed forces on active duty, on the annual form with the commanding officer’s signature confirming “on active duty”C.G.S. § 12-81(53)	Town of Darien, Guide to Assessment Exemption & BenefitsRead 2026-10-16
Specially adapted motor vehicle exemption, as Darien’s guide prints it	A total exemption for a motor vehicle specially equipped or modified in a significant way for the purpose of transporting medically incapacitated individuals, on the Specially Equipped Vehicles Exemption Application completed annually by October 3rdC.G.S. § 12-81h	Town of Darien, Guide to Assessment Exemption & BenefitsRead 2026-10-16
State additional veterans’ exemption, as Darien’s guide prints it	Twice the basic assessment exemption, filed February 1 to October 1, at the 2025 income limits of $46,300 single and $56,500 married, the limits for the 2026 grand listC.G.S. § 12-81g	Town of Darien, Guide to Assessment Exemption & BenefitsRead 2026-10-16
Darien local additional exemption, as Darien’s guide prints it	A 10 percent reduction on the net assessment, at income of $71,300 single and $81,500 married, filed February 1 to October 1 (RTM, October 23, 2017)C.G.S. § 12-81f	Town of Darien, Guide to Assessment Exemption & BenefitsRead 2026-10-16

Sources

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Last updated 2026-10-16.

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