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Newtown Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions

Newtown’s Local Option Veteran’s Program form shows a $10,000 exemption granted under the town’s local option, which OLR’s 2023 survey recorded as an exemption of 10 percent of property value for income up to $56,400 married or $48,100 single. Its assessor page prints no veteran amounts.

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

For: Veteran or service member, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

The assessor’s Local Option Veteran’s Program application, a fillable form on the town’s site, records the amount of exemption granted as $10,000, with income received during the last calendar year listed from the federal return, non-taxable interest, Social Security or railroad retirement, and other income including veterans’ pensions and disability payments. The form’s filing status line offers married, unmarried and surviving spouse, so a surviving spouse applies under the town’s option through the same form. OLR’s 2023 survey recorded Newtown as offering the 12-81f wartime option at 10 percent of property value, with income limits it printed as $56,400 married and $48,100 single for 2023. Ask the assessor which basis applies now. The assessor’s forms page also lists an Additional Veterans Application, a scan without a text layer that could not be read, and the Military Exemption Form. The assessor page itself prints no veterans’ amounts, so this entry rests on the town’s forms and the survey. OLR’s 2023 survey also recorded Newtown as offering the 12-81h vehicle option, the exemption of one motor vehicle specially equipped for a disabled veteran.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Newtown 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 Newtown Veterans’ Property Tax Exemptions
FigureAmountRead from
Local option exemption, as Newtown’s form records it$10,000 of exemption granted under the Local Option Veteran’s ProgramC.G.S. § 12-81fTown of Newtown, Local Option Veteran’s Program applicationRead
Local option exemption, as OLR’s 2023 survey reports itReported adopted: 10% of property value, for income up to $56,400 married or $48,100 single (2023)C.G.S. § 12-81fOLR Report 2024-R-0018, Veterans Property Tax Exemptions by Town: Municipal-Option ExemptionsRead
Specially equipped vehicle, as OLR’s 2023 survey reports itReported adopted: the 12-81h exemption of one specially equipped motor vehicleC.G.S. § 12-81hOLR Report 2024-R-0018, Veterans Property Tax Exemptions by Town: Municipal-Option ExemptionsRead

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