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Manchester Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions

Manchester’s Code § 285-4 adds $5,000 to the state additional exemption for a veteran under the state income limit and adopts the 12-81g(b) option. Since December 2025 its code also grants the 12-81pp unemployability exemption, the dwelling exemption to surviving spouses of veterans who died before October 2024, and $20,000 to a Gold Star parent.

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

For: Veteran or service member, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Manchester’s Assessment page gives the basic veterans’ exemption for 90 days of wartime service with the DD-214 filed with the Town Clerk by September 30, raised for a VA rating of 10 percent or more on proof filed by March 31. A veteran or surviving spouse under the state income limit gets the additional exemption under C.G.S. 12-81g, filed between February 1 and October 1: applications in 2026 use 2025 income, up to $46,300 single or $56,500 married, not counting VA disability payments. A veteran rated permanently and totally disabled at 100 percent has the dwelling, not the land or outbuildings, or one vehicle exempt under 12-81(83), on form D-2 by January 1 each year. Code § 285-4, amended on December 10, 2002 and October 7, 2014, gives a veteran in the additional veterans program a further $5,000 off assessment from the town, under 12-81f, and from the October 1, 2014 grand list adopts the 12-81g(b) option for a veteran rated 100 percent. On December 2, 2025 the Board of Directors added, from the 2025 grand list: § 285-4.3, the 12-81pp exemption of the dwelling or one vehicle for a veteran rated totally disabled through individual unemployability, which the page lists among its local options; § 285-4.2, the 12-81(83)(F) dwelling exemption for the surviving spouse of a veteran with a permanent and total rating who died after January 1, 1941 and before October 1, 2024; and in § 285-4.1, $20,000 for a parent of a person killed in action under 12-81ii, and the 12-81qq dwelling exemption for the surviving spouse of a person killed in action. Manchester did not answer OLR’s 2023 survey.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Manchester Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions
GateRule
Wartime service or a VA rating, set by state lawThe 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 Manchester Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions
FigureAmountRead from
Local additional exemption, as Manchester Code § 285-4 sets it$5,000 off assessment, for a veteran in the additional veterans programC.G.S. § 12-81fManchester Code, Chapter 285, Article I, Tax Exemptions and ProceduresRead
State additional exemption income limit, as Manchester publishes it$46,300 single, $56,500 married (2026 applications, 2025 income)C.G.S. § 12-81gTown of Manchester, Tax Relief for Veterans / Active Duty MilitaryRead
Unemployability (TDIU) dwelling exemption, Code § 285-4.3The dwelling (not land or outbuildings), or one motor vehicle, from the 2025 grand listC.G.S. § 12-81ppManchester Code, Chapter 285, Article I, Tax Exemptions and ProceduresRead
Gold Star parent, Code § 285-4.1$20,000 off real property assessment, for income under the state limit for an unmarried personC.G.S. § 12-81iiManchester Code, Chapter 285, Article I, Tax Exemptions and ProceduresRead

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