New Haven Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions

New Haven’s Department of Assessment publishes its veterans’ programs as two 2026 notices on its forms page, open for applications from February 2 to October 1, 2026. Both require an honorable discharge after at least 90 days of wartime service, with the DD-214 filed with the City Clerk by September 30, 2026, and proof of all 2025 income. An approved exemption generally runs for two assessment years. The City Additional Veterans Exemption, under C.G.S. 12-81f, is $10,000 or 10 percent of the total assessment, whichever is lower, for income up to $46,300 single or $56,500 married. Code § 28-12(2), last amended by Ord. No. 1444 on March 5, 2007, sets the same exemption and extends it to a surviving spouse, but prints income limits of $39,600 single and $45,600 married. Those are below the state’s current 12-81l amount, which 12-81f makes the floor, and the 2026 notice uses the state amount. The State Additional Veterans Exemption under 12-81g has the same income limits. The notice lists the exemption by rating: $6,000 with no disability rating, $12,000 at 10 to 25 percent, $15,000 at 26 to 50 percent, $18,000 at 51 to 75 percent, and $21,000 at 76 to 100 percent or over 65 with any rating, and $30,000 for a severe disability. It does not say whether those amounts include the regular exemption. The code also exempts in full one specially equipped vehicle and a specially adapted house. New Haven did not answer OLR’s 2023 survey.