Franklin Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions

The town’s Document Center carries two disabled-veterans ordinances. The Program for Property Tax Relief for 100% Disabled Veterans, approved at a Special Town Meeting October 16, 2014, published October 21, 2014 and effective November 5, 2014, provides in lieu of the 12-81g(a) additional exemption that “any person entitled to an exemption from property tax in accordance with Connecticut General Statutes 12-62g, who has a disability rating of one hundred per cent (100%), as determined by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, shall be entitled to an additional exemption … in an amount equal to three times the amount of the exemption provided for such person pursuant to Connecticut General Statutes 12-81(20), provided such person’s total adjusted gross income … is not more than twenty-one thousand dollars ($21,000.00) if such person is married or not more than eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000.00) if such person is not married.” That is the 12-81g(b) option, enacted under the authority of Public Act 13-224. A companion Program for Property Tax Relief for Disabled Veterans ordinance, also under Public Act 13-224, limits relief to applicants resident in the town for not less than ten consecutive years who owe no delinquent property taxes, and provides that the relief is “in addition to all other tax benefits provided to the Applicant in connection with his or her Qualified Property.” The assessor page says the office “administers various state and local tax exemption programs for veterans, seniors, and individuals with disabilities,” and its forms list carries no veteran forms. No amounts are printed. OLR’s 2023 survey recorded Franklin as offering no municipal option, as it also did for Danbury, whose ordinance adopts 12-81g(b); the ordinance is the record here.