Killingly Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions

The assessor’s counter handout for veterans and servicepersons sets the veteran’s exemption at $1,000 of assessed value for a Connecticut resident with at least 90 days of wartime service, on proof of service filed with the town clerk. A veteran with a VA rating of at least 10 percent receives $2,000 for a 10 to 25 percent rating, $2,500 for 26 to 50 percent, $3,000 for 51 to 75 percent and $3,500 for 76 to 100 percent or age 65 plus, the 12-81(20) schedule. For the additional exemption the handout prints “no application” and “with application” amounts: $2,000 rather than $1,000 for wartime service, $4,000 rather than $2,000 for a 10 to 25 percent rating, and so on to $7,000 for a 76 to 100 percent rating or a veteran rated and 65 plus. That is the state additional exemption of 12-81g(a), twice the base for income-qualified veterans, applied for February 1 through October 1 of the grand list year and reapproved every two years. The handout also describes the active-duty motor vehicle exemption, one passenger vehicle for a Connecticut resident serviceperson, and the federal Serviceperson’s Civil Relief Act exemption for a serviceperson whose home of record is another state. Killingly offered no municipal option in OLR’s 2023 survey, answering no to every one.