Kingston Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions (Clauses 22 to 22F)

The Town of Kingston grants the veterans’ exemptions of G.L. c. 59, s. 5, clauses 22 to 22F, through its board of assessors. The statute sets them as dollars off the tax bill, $400 under clause 22, $750, $1,250 and $1,500 under 22A to 22C and $1,000 under 22E, and exempts the whole domicile under 22D and 22F; a town can add to them only by accepting a local option, clause 22I, clause 22J or section 5C½. Every figure on this entry carries its source and the day it was read. The Tax Exemptions page posts the Department of Revenue’s taxpayer guides and the state’s application forms, and prints no amount of the town’s own, so the figures here are the statute’s; no clause 22I or 22J acceptance was found on the town’s site or in its posted warrant material. The town’s Veteran’s Tax Work-Off Abatement Program page records town meeting’s May 14, 2022 acceptance of G.L. c. 59, s. 5N and gives an abatement of up to $1,000 for the program year. The Veteran Services page names Sara Lansing the Veterans Agent, with hours split between Town House and the Duxbury Free Library (781-585-0515, extension 6203), where the EOVS directory lists the same officer. The town serves from kingstonma.gov; its old kingstonmass.org answers a Cloudflare challenge that does not clear. Chapter 115 benefits, the Commonwealth’s needs-based help with rent, food, fuel and medical costs, are applied for through Kingston Veteran Services: Sara Lansing, Veterans Agent. Their amounts are set by the Commonwealth and are the same in every city and town; the statewide chapter 115 entry describes them.