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

The City of Northampton 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 city 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 Assessor’s Office’s Tax Exemption Guidelines for fiscal 2026 print $515 under clause 22, $965 under 22A, $1,608 under 22B, $1,929 under 22C and $1,286 under 22E, with a full exemption under 22D and 22F. Each is its statute raised by the fiscal 2026 adjustment of 2.9 per cent and then increased a quarter, what clauses 22I and 22J at 25 per cent produce; the sheet names no option, and no vote was found in the city’s online records, so ask the assessors to confirm. The sheet’s non-veterans rows sit otherwise at their own figures - $500 under 37A, $1,000 under 41C, $186 under 17D - so the increase reaches the veterans’ clauses alone. The city’s veterans’ pages defer to the EOVS guide and name no amounts of their own. Veterans’ services sit in the Central Hampshire Veterans’ Services district, whose director Daniel Nye the EOVS directory lists at 240 Main Street, Suite 4 (413-587-1299); the district serves Northampton and thirteen neighbouring towns. Chapter 115 benefits, the Commonwealth’s needs-based help with rent, food, fuel and medical costs, are applied for through Northampton Veterans’ Services: Central Hampshire Veterans’ Services, Daniel Nye, Director. Their amounts are set by the Commonwealth and are the same in every city and town; the statewide chapter 115 entry describes them.