East Lyme Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions

East Lyme’s Veteran’s Exemptions page gives the basic veteran’s exemption to a person honorably discharged after at least 90 days in a period of war, on a DD-214 filed with the Town Clerk by September 30, and prints no amount for it. The Additional Veteran Exemption follows the income guidelines approved annually by OPM: for 2025 calendar-year income, not more than $46,300 single or $56,500 married, with Social Security included, and $18,000 single or $21,000 married of income for a 100 percent disabled veteran. A veteran claiming a disability exemption files VA proof of the percentage with the assessor, once unless the rating changes. The Veterans Town Local Option Additional $5,000 Exemption was approved by the Board of Selectmen on February 1, 2006 as a local option ordinance. Its income requirement is the OPM limits plus $2,000, printed as $48,300 single and $58,500 married for 2025. The town’s American Legal Publishing code carries no taxation chapter, so the option rests on the page. OLR’s 2023 survey recorded the same $5,000 with limits $2,000 above the 2023 state amounts, and also reported East Lyme offering the 12-81kk primary-residence exemption and the 12-81h vehicle option, neither of which the page mentions. Ask the assessor. From October 1, 2025 a veteran claiming the 100 percent service-connected permanent and total disability exemption under C.G.S. 12-81(83) files form D-2 annually with proof, identification and residency, by January 1. The page also gives the active-duty serviceman’s total exemption of one passenger motor vehicle, applied for annually within fifteen months of the assessment date, and the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act affidavit for non-residents.